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A  BIBLIOGRAPHY 
OF 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES 


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A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 

OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES 

COMPILED   BY   GEORGE  B.   IVES 


BOSTON  AND  NEW  YORK 

HOUGHTON,  MIFFLIN  AND  COMPANY 

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PREFACE 

"Des  communications  et  des  rencontres,  voila  ce  qui 
arrive  a  tout  lexicographe  en  quete  de  materiaux,"  wrote 
Littre  by  way  of  introduction  to  the  third  supplement  to 
his  great  dictionary.  With  the  substitution  of  a  word  the 
observation  will  apply  with  equal  force  to  one  in  quest  of 
material  for  the  bibliography  of  an  author  so  prolific  as 
Dr.  Plolmes  in  "occasional"  prose  as  well  as  verse.  The 
compiler  of  this  volume  early  abandoned  all  hope  of 
achieving  completeness,  even  before  he  was  warned  by  one 
who  knew  whereof  he  spoke  that  he  had  undertaken  a 
"supernatural"  task.  He  has  finally  become  convinced 
that,  no  matter  how  long  the  book  may  be  withheld  from 
the  press,  there  will  be  no  end  to  the  "communications 
and  discoveries  ; "  the  Appendix  contains  those  which  have 
come  to  hand  since  the  pages  were  made  up,  and  which 
it  was  impossible  to  incorporate  in  the  text. 

The  general  arrangement  of  the  bibliography  is  sub- 
stantially the  same  as  that  adopted  by  Mr.  Cooke  in  his 
Bibliography  of  Lowell. 

I.  A  Chronological  List  of  Titles,  accompanied  by  page 
references.  This  list  is  extended  to  include  the  more  im- 
portant volumes  in  which  some  of  Dr.  Holmes's  works  are 
printed  in  conjunction  with  the  work  of  other  writers. 

II.  An  Alphabetical  List  of  Single  Works.  This  list  has 
been  extended  by  the  necessity  of  introducing  a  large  num- 
ber of  cross-references.  So  many  poems  written  for  special 
occasions  have  never  received  any  distinguishing  titles,  and 
are  printed  in  the  collections  simply  as  "Songs,"  "Poems," 
or  "Hymns,"  that  it  is  not  easy  to  find  any  particular  one 
without  the  aid  of  a  cross-reference.  Again,  a  number  of 
the  poems,  especially  the  earlier  ones,  were  originally  pub- 


[vi] 

lished  under  different  titles  from  those  which  they  now 
bear,  and  a  complete  list  must  necessarily  include  both. 

In  searching  for  unpublished  matter  in  the  periodicals 
and  "Annuals"  of  the  years  between  Dr.  Holmes's  gradua- 
tion and  the  publication  of  his  first  volume  of  poems  (1836), 
the  compiler  remembered  a  passage  in  a  letter  to  Phineas 
Barnes,  quoted  by  Mr.  Morse,  in  his  biography  of  Dr. 
Holmes:  ^  "By  the  way,  if  you  find  any  floating  scraps  with 
O.  W.  H.  to  the  tail  of  them,  set  them  down  to  the  owner 
and,  I  believe,  the  only  one,  of  those  preposterous  initials." 
In  this  way  he  was  able  to  fix  the  original  appearance  of 
some,  even  of  the  acknowledged  poems,  which  the  careful 
editor  of  the  Cambridge  Edition  had  failed  to  place.  The 
purpose  has  been  to  give,  so  far  as  possible,  in  connection 
w^ith  each  item :  — 

1.  Particulars  as  to  its  first  appearance  in  print. 

2.  If  it  first  appeared  elsewhere  than  in  a  bound  volume, 
the  title  and  date  of  publication  of  such  volume  in  which 
it  was  first  printed,  if  at  all. 

3.  Its  first  appearance  in  a  volume  of  Dr.  Holmes's  col- 
lected works. 

In  some  special  cases  further  details  are  given;  and 
when  it  has  come  to  the  compiler's  knowledge  that  a  poem 
was  printed  in  the  form  of  a  leaflet,  or  broadside,  for  dis- 
tribution on  the  "occasion"  for  which  it  was  written,  or 
for  any  other  purpose,  that  fact  also  is  noted.  Such  print- 
ings are,  in  the  eye  of  the  collector,  first  editions,  and  are 
prized  accordingly. 

Unfortunately,  for  the  purposes  of  the  bibliographer,  at 
least,  there  is  no  possibility  of  identifying  Dr.  Holmes's 
earliest  original  works.  His  own  statements  on  the  subject 
are  not  illuminating.  In  the  "Autobiographical  Notes" 
printed  by  Mr.  Morse,^  he  says,  "I  have  often  been  asked 
what  were  the  first  verses  I  printed.  I  can't  be  quite  certain 
on  this  point;  but  of  one  thing  I  am  quite  certain,  that,  so 
far  as  I  know,  no  vestige  of  talent  is  found  in  any  one  of 
M^ol.  i,p.  71.  'Vol.  i,p.  47. 


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them."  And  in  the  letter  to  Mr.  John  O.  Sargent  of  Feb.  19, 
1878,  accompanying  the  famous  sonnets  written  for  the 
anniversary  of  the  Harvard  Club  of  New  York:  "May  I 
venture  to  remind  you,  Mr.  President,  that  it  is  nearly 
fifty  years  since  you,  as  Editor  of  a  College  Magazine,  gave 
a  kindly  welcome  to  the  earliest  printed  verses  known  as 
coming  from  my  pen.?"  The  reference  is,  of  course,  to 
the  Collegian,  and  perhaps  the  qualifying  phrase,  "known 
as  coming  from  my  pen,"  may  reconcile  it  with  the  following 
passage  of  a  letter  to  Phineas  Barnes,  written  in  March, 

1828,  fifty  years  earlier,  while  Holmes  was  still  an  under- 
graduate at  Harvard:  "I  smoke  most  devoutly,  and  sing 
most  unmusically,  have  written  poetry  for  an  Annual,  and 
seen  my  literary  bantlings  swathed  in  green  silk  and  repos- 
ing in  the  drawing-room."  ^  Thus  far  no  one  has  succeeded 
in  discovering  an  "Annual"  bound  in  green  silk,  of  a  suf- 
ficiently early  date  to  meet  the  requirements  of  this  allusion, 
although  some  of  those  who  have  been  interested  enough  to 
follow  it  up,  have  thought  that  they  detected  Dr.  Holmes's 
hand  in  different  poems  in  the  Token  for  1828  and  1829. 

It  is  certain,  however,  that  he  was  the  author  of  two 
poems  which  were  composed  and  delivered  during  the  year 

1829,  but  of  which  neither,  in  all  likelihood,  was  ever 
printed.  On  July  14,  Class  Day,  Holmes  "delivered  a  hu- 
morous and  characteristic  poem,  the  chief  objection  to  which 
was  its  brevity."  Such  is  the  record  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Class  of  1829;  ^  and  Mr.  Lowell,  in  his  article  on  Class 
Day  for  the  Harvard  Book,^  quotes  the  diary  of  the  Rev. 
George  Whitney  of  Roxbury  with  respect  to  this  Class 
Day  of  1829  as  follows:— 

^  Morse,  vol.  i,  p.  55. 

2  The  compiler  cannot  adequately  express  his  regret  that,  under  the 
conditions  governing  the  deposit  in  the  Library  of  Harvard  College  of  the 
absolutely  unique  volume  containing  the  records  of  the  famous  Class,  as 
kept  for  sixty  years  by  the  Secretary,  Mr.  Samuel  May,  he  is  unable  to 
draw  upon  it  for  material  which  would  add  immeasurably  to  the  interest 
of  this  work.  It  is  occasionally  referred  to  as  authority  for  some  fact  for 
which  there  is  no  other  authority. 

*  Cambridge,  1875,  vol.  ii,p.  165. 


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"His  pHolmes's]  poem  was  very  happy  and  abounded  in 
wit.  Instead  of  a  spiritual  muse  he  invoked  for  his  goddesses 
the  ladies  present,  and  in  so  doing  he  sang  very  amusingly 
of  his  'hapless  amour  with  too  tall  a  maid.'" 

Again,  at  Commencement,  we  have,  in  addition  to  the 
Class  records,  the  testimony  of  Rev.  John  Pierce  of  the 
Class  of  1793,  in  his  diary,  that  "Holmes  gave  much  delight 
in  a  poem  without  a  subject."  ^  - 

It  is  probable  that  the  poem  printed,  under  the  title 
"Banditti,"  in  the  New  England  Galaxy  early  in  1830,  and 
reprinted  under  the  same  title,  in  the  same  year,  in  the 
Gleaner,  is  the  earliest  production  of  Dr.  Holmes's  of  which 
we  can  be  absolutely  sure.  It  is  familiar  to  all  readers  under 
the  title  "The  Music-Grinders." 

in.  A  Chronological  List  of  Single  Publications. 

Beginning  with  the  Harbinger,  in  which  seventeen  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  poems,  all  of  which  save  one  ^  had  been  previously 
printed,  in  various  periodicals  and  annuals,  were  "col- 
lected," an  attempt  has  been  made  to  include  all  the  import- 
ant editions,  at  least,  of  each  successive  publication  of  Dr. 
Holmes.  Recourse  has  been  had  to  the  Library  of  Harvard 
College,  the  Boston  Public  Library,  the  Boston  Athenaeum, 
and  the  Boston  Medical  Library;  also  to  the  Library  of 
Congress,  and,  lastly,  to  the  Catalogue  of  Printed  Books 
in  the  British  Museum.  As  to  the  last-named  authority, 
the  compiler  feels  bound  to  say  that  he  is  not  altogether 
satisfied  as  to  the  extraordinary  number  of  editions  of  vari- 
ous works  said  to  have  been  issued  by  Messrs.  Routledge, 
most  of  which  are  given  in  the  Appendix. 

In  this  list  only  those  separate  issues  of  individual  poems 

*  Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  2d  series,  vol.  5, 
p.  200.  Extracts  from  Mr.  Pierce's  diary  have  been  published  at  intervals 
by  the  Society.  See  under  "  Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay  "  and  "  The  Pil- 
grim's Vision." 

'  "  The  Dying  Seneca."  It  probably  had  been  printed  elsewhere,  but 
has  not  been  discovered. 


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are  included  which  seem  to  have  been  printed  with  some 
idea  of  permanence. 

rV.  Selections  and  Compilations. 

This  list  has  been  extended  somewhat  beyond  its  natural 
intent,  in  order  to  give,  in  conjunction  with  that  immediately 
preceding,  prominent  position  to  every  book  (not  including 
periodicals,  or  reports  of  proceedings  on  special  occasions) 
in  which  any  work  of  Dr.  Holmes  was  first  printed. 

V.  Letters. 

VI.  Contributions  to  the  Atlantic  Monthly. 

The  foregoing  lists  are  intended  to  include,  in  some 
form,  mention  of  everything  written  by  Dr.  Holmes.  Those 
which  follow  represent  the  compiler's  endeavors  to  collect 
what  has  been  written  about  him  and  his  work. 

I.  Biographies,  including  a  list  of  bibliographies,  of 
which  only  those  of  Mr.  Foley,  Mr.  Arnold,  and  Mr.  Ken- 
nedy ^  deserve  special  mention.  None  of  these  were  pub- 
lished separately. 

n.  List  of  books  and  articles  of  which  the  authors  are 
known,  arranged  alphabetically  by  the  authors'  names. 

in.  Chronological  List  of  anonymous  articles. 

As  to  the  last  two  lists,  the  compiler  regrets  that  it  was 
impracticable,  without  extending  them  beyond  measure,  to 
indicate,  except  in  rare  instances,  the  comparative  import- 
ance of  the  works  enumerated.  Many  would  have  been 
omitted  except  for  his  reluctance  to  attempt  to  discriminate, 

rV.  Poems. 

The  volume  closes  with  a  list  of  sales  at  auction.  Even  a 
cursory  examination  will  show  how  unreliable  such  sales 
are  in  fixing  the  value  of  any  particular  volume;  for  the 
prices  obtained  are  not  only  influenced  by  considerations 
of  sentiment  and  association,  but  vary  mysteriously  accord- 
*  In  his  Life  of  Hokues. 


ing  to  the  dates  of  the  various  sales,  and,  to  some  extent, 
according  to  the  names  of  the  owners  of  the  volmnes  sold. 

If  he  has  fallen  far  short  of  completeness,  the  compiler 
ventures  to  hope  that  his  work  will,  at  least,  be  found  to  be 
free  from  serious  errors,  although  there  may  be  occasional 
inconsistencies  in  the  arrangement  of  material.  To  remedy 
this  defect  so  far  as  possible,  and  to  direct  attention  to 
the  miscellaneous  items  of  information  which  are  scattered 
through  the  various  lists  and  to  which  neither  alphabetical 
nor  chronological  arrangement  gives  a  clue,  an  index  has 
been  added.  It  does  not  pretend  to  be  exhaustive,  or  to 
be  arranged  on  any  scientific  plan,  but  it  is  hoped  that  it 
may  measurably  serve  the  purpose  indicated. 

The  compiler  is  glad  to  acknowledge  his  indebtedness  to 
Mr.  Charies  Albert  Read,  of  the  Harvard  Library,  for  val- 
uable assistance  in  collecting  material,  especially  data  of 
magazine  articles  and  other  works  concerning  Dr.  Holmes ; 
to  Miss  Annie  L.  Sinclair,  of  the  Library  of  Congress  at 
Washington,  for  descriptions  of  editions  of  Dr.  Holmes's 
works  other  than  those  issued  by  his  authorized  publishers; 
and  to  Mr.  James  F.Ballard,  of  the  Boston  Medical  Library, 
for  courteous  and  willing  cooperation  in  his  investigations 
there.  He  is  also  under  great  obligation  to  Mr.  Justice 
Holmes  for  memoranda  relating  to  certain  editions  in  his 
library,  of  which  he  has  obtained  no  information  from  any 
other  source.  Mr.  Luther  S.  Livingston,  in  addition  to  his 
generous  assistance,  acknowledged  elsewhere,  in  connection 
with  the  record  of  auction  sales  for  1905-06,  has  very  kindly 
furnished  bibliographical  material  which  has  made  it  pos- 
sible to  add  considerably  to  the  list  of  volumes  contain- 
ing letters  of  Dr.  Holmes;  and  Mr.  Patrick  Ke\dn  Foley, 
with  the  most  unselfish  and  hearty  good-will,  has  supplied 
valuable  information  and  suggestions  which  are  gratefully 
acknowledged.  Thanks  are  due  also  to  Mr.  George  Blatch- 
ford,  of  Pittsfield,  and  to  the  family  of  the  late  Mr.  J.  E.  A. 
Smith,  for  their  generous  permission  to  print  those  of  the 


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"Berkshire  poems"  of  Dr.  Holmes,  which  were  first  pub- 
lished in  Mr.  Smith's  "The  Poet  among  the  Hills;"  also 
to  Dr.  James  Jackson  Putnam  for  permission  to  print  the 
verses  to  Dr.  James  Jackson  on  his  eightieth  birthday. 

Mrs.  J.  Chester  Chamberlain,  of  New  York,  has,  with  the 
utmost  courtesy  and  kindness,  supplied  descriptions  of  two 
very  rare  works,  —  "New  England's  Master-Key"  and  a 
Lecture  of  1863,  —  the  only  known  copies  of  which  are 
in  the  great  collection  of  the  late  Mr.  Chamberlain,  whose 
imtimely  death  in  the  prime  of  life  and  in  the  midst  of  a 
career  of  great  usefulness  and  promise  is  lamented  not  by 
collectors  alone.  The  value  of  this  work  to  those  persons  to 
whom,  if  to  anybody,  it  can  have  value  is  greatly  increased 
by  the  inclusion  of  such  material. 

Mr.  Stephen  H.  Wakeman,  of  New  York,  whose  collec- 
tion of  works  by  and  concerning  the  New  England  group 
of  authors  is  very  extensive  and  complete,  kindly  allowed 
the  compiler  to  inspect  his  valuable  Holmes  collection ;  the 
most  notable  result  of  that  permission  is  the  description  of 
the  unique  "Lecture  on  the  Poetry  of  the  War,"  of  which 
only  two  copies  are  known  to  have  been  printed.  In  addi- 
tion to  this,  however,  the  compiler  is  indebted  to  Mr.  Wake- 
man  for  his  knowledge  of  the  existence  of  a  number  of 
poems  in  the  shape  of  separate  leaflets,  and  of  the  reprint  of 
the  Atlantic  article  on  Hawthorne  in  that  author's  "Pansie; " 
also  for  the  opportunity  to  inspect  the  "Verses  from  the 
Island  Book,"  for  copies  of  the  "Prelude"  to  that  volume, 
and  of  the  curious  versions  of  the  passage  from  "The  Old 
Player,"  printed  in  the  Recreations  of  the  Rabelais  Club; 
and  for  much  other  information  which  was  unobtainable 
elsewhere,  all  of  which  is  gratefully  acknowledged. 

In  conclusion  the  compiler  takes  the  opportunity  to  say 
that  his  investigations  have  satisfied  him  that  collectors 
outside  of  New  England  are  rapidly  acquiring  all  that  is 
most  valuable  from  their  standpoint  in  the  way  of  editions 
and  manuscripts  of  the  group  of  authors  to  whom  that 
section  of  the  country  owes  its  literary  prestige. 


CONTENTS 

Chronological  List  of  Dr.  Holmes's  Works      .      1 

Alphabetical  List  of  Single  Titles 

I.  Poems  .     ' 3 

II.  Prose       .        .        .        .        .        .        .        .95 

Chronological  List  of  Single  Publications 

I.  Poetry 118 

II.  Prose 161 

Collected  Works 200 

Selections  and  Compilations  ....  202 

Letters 226 

Dr.   Holmes's    Contributions   to   the   Atlantic 
Monthly 236 

Biography  and  Criticism 

I.  Biographies 243 

Bibliographies        ......  245 

II.  Signed  Essays,  Reviews,  etc.  .        .         .       246 

ni.  Essays,   Reviews,  and   other  Anonymous 
Articles,    arranged    in    Chronological 
Order      .......       263 

IV.  Poems 275 

Record  of  Sales  at  Auction      ....      287 
Manuscripts 302 

Appendix 305 

Index 317 


BIBLIOGRAPHY 


CHRONOLOGICAL  LIST  OF  DR. 
HOLMES'S  WORKS 

The  figures  opposite  the  titles  refer  to  the  pages  upon  which 
the  various  editions  of  the  respective  publications  are  described. 
The  hst  includes,  besides  Dr.  Holmes's  own  publications,  the 
most  important  works  of  which  his  contributions  form  only  a 
part  of  the  contents. 

1830.    The  Collegian  202 

The  Gleaner  205 

1833.    The  Harbinger  118 

1836.    The  Laurel  206 

Poems  119 

1838.    Boylston  Prize  Dissertations,  1836-1837       161 

1842.  Homoeopathy,   and  its    Kindred     De-   ' 

lusions  162 

1843.  The  Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever       162 
;    1846.    Poems,  London  123 

Urania:  a  Rhymed  Lesson  125 

1849.  Poems  125,  127 

1850.  Astrsea:  the  Balance  of  Illusions  129 
Dedication  of  Pittsfield  Cemetery  130 

1852.    Poems,  London  130 

1854.    Songs  of  the  Class  of  1829     132,  133,  134,  135 

The  New  Eden  136 

1856.    Oration  before  the  New  England  Society       164 

1858.  The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table    165,  314 

1859.  The  Promise  136 

1860.  The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table     171,  315 
Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medi- 
cal Science  174 

1861.  Currents     and      Counter-Currents     in 

Medical  Science,  with  other  Addresses 
and  Essays  175 

Elsie  Venner  176,315 

Vive  la  France  137 

1862.  Songs  in  Many  Keys  137 
Poems,  Blue  and  Gold  Edition                     141 


[2]   _ 

1863.  Oration  delivered  before  the  City  Author- 

ities of  Boston,  July  4th  179 

Lecture  180,  311 

New  Englana's  Master-Key  180,  312 

1864.  Soundings  from  the  Atlantic  207 

1865.  Poetry  of  the  War  180 
Humorous  Poems  208 
Verses  from  the  Island  Book  207 

1867.    The  Guardian  Angel  181,  316 

1869.    Hir,tory  of  the  American  Stereoscope  182 

1871.  Mechanism  in  Thought  and  Morals  182 

1872.  The  Claims  of  Dentistry  183 
The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table  183,  316 

1874.  Professor  Jeffries  Wyman  185 

1875.  Songs  of  Many  Seasons  142 
Grandmother's    Story    of    Bunker    Hill 

Battle  144 

1877.    Poems,  Household  Edition  146 

1879.  John  Lothrop  Motley.  A  Memoir  185 
The  School-Boy        "  150 

1880.  Jonathan  Edwards  188 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems  151 

1881.  Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition  152 
1883.    Medical  Essays,  1842-82  189 

Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life  190 

1885.    Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  191 

A  Mortal  Antipathy  192,  316 

The  Last  Leaf        '  153 

1887.    Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe  192 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems  155 

1891.  Tribute  to  Henry  J.  Bigelow,  M.  D.  195 
Over  the  Teacups  196 
Works,  Riverside  Edition  200 

1892.  Works,  Standard  Library  Edition  200 
1892-96.    Works,  Artists'  Edition  201 

The  One-Hoss  Shay,  etc.  157 

Dorothy  Q.,  etc.  158 

1895.    Poems,  Cambridge  Edition  158 

1899.  Poems,  Cabinet  Edition  160 

1900.  Works,  Popular  Edition  201 
1904.    Works,  Autocrat  Edition  201 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  SINGLE 
TITLES 

In  this  Kst  those  titles  which  are  not  included  in  the  collected 
editions  of  Dr.  Holmes's  Works  are  preceded  by  an  asterisk;  those 
which  have  been  published  separately  are  printed  in  small  capitals. 

I 

POEMS 

"  Ad  Amicos"  (For  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 1876) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1876,  vol.  37,  pp.  314-315. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 
165-168. 

Ad  Sodales  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1870) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

130-135. 
Printed  in  Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  and  in  all  subsequent 
collected  editions,  under  the  title  "Even-Song."    The  records 
of  the  Class  aver  that  Dr.  Holmes  had  given  it  as  a  title  "Sat 
prata  biberunt,"  and  had  addressed  it  Ad  Sodales. 
Address  for  the  Opening  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre 
(New  York,  Dec.  3,  1873) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
See  Appendix,  p.  305,  infra. 

-Estivation  (An  Unpublished  Poem  by  my  late  Latin  Tutor) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  500-501,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  p.  307. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Keats 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 


[4] 

After  a  Lecture  on  Moore 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Shelley 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth  ^ 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

See  "A  Vision  of  the  Housatonic." 
After  the  Buria! 

Boston  Weekly  Globe,  Tuesday,  Sept.  27,  1881.    (Garfield 

Memorial  Number.) 
The  Poets'  Tribute  to  Garfield.   The  collection  of  poems  for 

the  Boston  Globe,  1881,  pp.  28-30. 
See  "On  the  Death  of  President  Garfield." 

After  the  Curfew  (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,   Jan.   10, 

1889) 

Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  227-229. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1890,  vol.  65,  pp.  242-243,  in  "  Over 
the  Teacups." 

Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  69-70. 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

This  was  the  last  of  the  long  and  wonderful  hstof  Class  poems. 
There  was  but  one  more  "regular"  meeting,  —  on  January  9, 
1890,  —  when  Dr.  Holmes  and  only  two  other  members  of  the 
class  met  at  the  Parker  House;  "for  the  first  time  in  forty  full 
years  Holmes  had  come  without  a  poem." 

After  the  Fire  (Boston,  Nov.  30,  1872) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  1873,  vol.  31,  pp.  96-97 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

After-Dinner  Poem,  An  (Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Cambridge,  1843) 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Originally  printed  in  Graham's  Magazine  and  in  Poems 
(London),  1846,  imder  the  title  "Terpsichore,"  which  see. 

*  The  four  poems  last  named,  together  with  a  fifth,  "At  the  Close  of  a 
Course  of  Lectures,"  were  read  as  postludes  to  a  course  on  English  Poetry 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century,  delivered  before  the  Lowell  Institute,  Boston, 
in  1853,  and  never  published. 


[5] 

Agassiz,  Farewell  to 

See  "  A  Farewell  to  Agassiz." 

Agnes 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862.^ 

"Liberty  was  granted  to  Dr.  Holmes,  at  his  written  request, 
to  make  certain  extracts  from  the  manuscript  diary  of  Sir 
Henry  Franckland,  for  the  illustration  of  a  narrative  poem 
written  by  himself."  —  Proceedings  of  Massachusetts  Histor- 
ical Society,  Sept.  13,  1860,  vol.  5,  p.  63. 

Album  Verses 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1857, vol.  1,  p.  54,  in  the  "Autocrat."  * 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  18-19. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Alexis,  Grand  Duke,  of  Russia 

See  "At  the  Banquet  to  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis,"  and  "A 
Welcome  to  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis." 

All  Here.    1829-1867    (Written   for  the   Class    Meeting, 
Jan.  10,  1867) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1867,  vol.  19,  pp.  323-324. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1868,  pp.  90-92. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Alumni  of  Harvard  College,  Meeting  of  the 
See  "Meeting  of  the  Alumni,"  etc. 

America  to  Russia  (Read  by  Hon.  G.  V.  Fox  at  a  dinner 
given  to  the  Mission  from  the  United  States,  St.  Peters- 
burg, Aug.  5,  1866) 
Russian  Account  of  the  Official  Mission  of  G.  V.  Fox  to  Rus- 
sia in  1866.    Translated  by  S.  N.  Buynitzky,  1867,  p.   18. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
"Early  in  1866,"  says  Mrs.  Hughes,^  "  Mr.  Fox,  still  Assistant 

^  In  a  note  to  this  poem  Dr.  Holmes  speaks  of  its  having  been  published 
June  10,  1861,  but  the  compiler  has  been  unable  to  find  any  publication 
containing  it  of  an  earlier  date  than  this  volume,  which  was  copyrighted 
in  1861,  and  actually  issued  late  in  that  year. 

^  There  printed  without  title. 

'  Sarah  Forbes  Hughes:  Letters  and  Recollections  of  John  Mmray 
Forbes,  1899,  vol.  ii,  pp.  159-160. 


[6] 

Secretary  of  the  Navy,  was  sent  by  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment, in  a  monitor,  to  Russia,  to  offer  to  the  Czar  om-  country's 
congratulations  on  the  freeing  of  the  serfs.  "WTien  this  was  in 
contemplation,  it  occurred  to  my  father  that  a  slightly  different 
touch  might  be  given  to  the  affair  by  some  verses  '  with  a  good 
ring  to  them;*  and  accordingly,  at  his  suggestion,  his  kind 
friend.  Dr.  Ohver  Wendell  Holmes,  wrote  for  this  occasion 
the  ode  beginning: 

*  Though  watery  deserts  hold  apart 
The  worlds  of  East  and  West.* 

"Mr.  Fox,  after  crossing  the  ocean  successfully  in  the  small 
monitor,  .  .  .  arrived  duly  in  Russia;  the  poem  was  read  to 
the  Czar  and  translated  by  the  court  poet,  and  was  a  great 
success.'* 

American  Academy  Centemiial  Celebration   (May  26, 1880) 
Memoirs  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 

Centennial  Volume  (vol.  11,  part  i),  1882,  pp.  11-13.^ 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

American  Medical  Association,  Meeting  of  the   (1853) 
See  "Poem  for  the  Meeting,  etc.,'*  and  ["A  Sentiment"]. 

Andrew,  Governor,  Hymn  for  the  Inauguration  of 
See  "Hymn  for  the  Inauguration,"  etc. 

Angel-Thief,  The    (Read  at  the   Class  Meeting,    Jan.   5, 
1888) 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  225-226. 

A[ngier],  J[oseph],  1871 
See  "Our  Sweet  Singer." 

Appeal  for  the  Old  South,  An 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 
See  "The  Brave  Old  South." 

^  The  poem  was  read  during  the  exercises  at  the  Old  South  Church, 
and  was  prefaced  by  some  humorous  remarks,  printed  on  p.  11  of  the 
volume. 


[7] 

Archbishop,  The,  and  Gil  Bias 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1880,  vol.  46,  pp.  205-206. 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 
See  "A  Dialogue.    Senex  —  Juvenis." 

Army  Hjonn 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1861,  vol.  7,  p.  757. 

A  Discourse  before  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 
pany on  its  ccxxiii  Anniversary,  June  3,  1861 ;  by  S.  K. 
Lothrop,  D.D.,  pp.  59-60. 

Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union,  1861,  p.  14. 

Monthly  Journal  of  the  American  Unitarian  Association,  Oct., 
1861  (army  number),  vol.  2,  p.  452. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Astr^a:  the  Balance  of  Illusions  (Phi  Beta  Kappa, 
Yale,  1850) 

Poems,  London,  1852. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

The  original  ms.  of  "Astraea,"  32  pp.  4to,  signed,  dated 
Aug.  4, 1850  (bound  in  half  morocco),  brought  $111.00  at  the 
Kennedy  Sale,  April,  1904. 

[At  a  Birthday  Festival]    To  J.  R.  Lowell 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1859,  vol.  3,  p.  493,  in  the  "Pro- 
fessor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  96-97. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
First  printed  with  title  in  last-named  volume. 

At  a  Dinner  to  Admiral  Farragut    (July  6,  1865) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

At  a  Dinner  to  General  Grant    (July  31,  1865) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

At  a  Meeting  of  Friends  (Aug.  29,  1859) 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

In  Mr.  Longfellow's  Journal  under  the  above  date  is  the  follow- 
ing entry:  "Drove  up  to  town  to  dine  with  Dr.  Holmes's  friends 
on  his  fiftieth  birthday.   Felton  presided.    A  deUghtful  dinner. 


[8] 

Holmes  made  a  charming  little  speech  with  some  verses  at  the 
end  to  romid  it  off."  —  S.  Longfellow's  Life  of  H.  W.  Long- 
fellow, vol.  ii,  p.  393,  Standard  Library  Edition. 

At  my  Fireside 

Before  the  Cm-few,  and  Other  Poems,  1888,  p.  iii,  as  Prelude. 

At  the  Atlantic  Dinner  (Dec.  15,  1874) 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

At  the  Banquet  to  the  Chinese  Embassy  (Aug.  21,  1868) 

Reception  and  Entertainment  of  the  Chinese  Embassy  by 

the  City  of  Boston,  1868,  pp.  41-42. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

At  the  Banquet  to  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis  (Dec.  11,  1871)^ 
His  Imperial  Highness  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis  in  the  United 

States  of  America  during  the  winter  of  1871-72  (1872), 

p.  97. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

At  the  Banquet  to  the  Japanese  Embassy  (Aug.  2,  1872) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

At  the  Close  of  a  Course  of  Lectures 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  on  p.  4,  supra. 

At  the  Pantomime    (18—.    Rewritten  1874) 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

The  last  four  stanzas  are  printed  in  "  Over  the  Teacups," 
1890,  pp.  198-199  (Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1890,  vol.  66, 
p.  103). 

At  the  Papyrus  Club 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

At  the  Saturday  Club 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1884,  vol.  53,  pp.  68-71. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

^  This  poem  is  dated  Dec.  9  in  all  editions   of   the  Poems,  but    the 
banquet  actually  took  place  on  the  11th. 


[9] 

At  the  Summit   (To  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  on  her  seven- 
tieth birthday,  June  14,  1882) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1882,  vol.  50,  pp.  164-165. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

At  the  Turn  of  the  Road 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1890,  vol.  66,  p.  547,  in  "  Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  288-289. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

At  the  Unitarian  Festival  (March  8,  1882) 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
Aimt  Tabitha 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1872,  vol.  29,  p.  349,  in  the  "  Poet.'* 

Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  102-103. 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Ave 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1884,  vol.  53,  pp.  456-457. 
Illustrated  Poems,  1885,  pp.  x-xi,  as  Prelude. 

Avis 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  893-894,  m  "The 

Autocrat  Gives  a  Breakfast  to  the  PubUc.** 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

An  autograph  ms.  of  "Avise  '*  [sic]  on  3  quarto  pages,  with  an 
explanatory  note,  also  in  autograph,  on  a  separate  page,  signed  in 
full,  brought  $36.00  at  the  WiUiamson  Sale  in  March,  1904,  and 
$11.00  at  the  Wendell  Sale,  in  May,  1905.    See  also  p.  97,  infra. 

Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party,  A 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Dec. 
16,  1873,  vol.  13,  pp.  202-204. 

Proceedings  at  a  Special  Meeting  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc, 
Dec.  16,  1873,  being  the  100th  Anniversary  of  the  de- 
struction of  the  tea  in  Boston  Harbor,  1874,  pp.  56-58. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1874,  vol.  33,  pp.  219-221. 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Ballad  of  the  Oysterman,  The 

The  Amateur,  July  17,  1830,  no.  3,  pp.  37-38. 


[10] 

The  Harbinger  (1833),  pp.  36-38. ' 
Poems,  1836. 

Banditti 

New  England  Galaxy,  1830. 

The  Gleaner,   or  Selections  in  Prose  and  Poetry  from  the 

Periodical  Press,  1830,  pp.  33-35. 
See  "  The  Music-Grinders." 

Banker's  Dinner,  The 

Songs  in  Mary  Keys,  1862. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

See  "The  Banker's  Secret,"  "Each  Heart  has  its  own 
Secret,"    and  "  Readings  over  the  Teacups." 

Banker's  Secret,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891, in  "Readings  over  the  Tea- 
cups." 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Originally  printed  under  the  title  "The  Banker's  Dinner," 
as  one  of  the  group.  Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  in  Songs 
in  Many  Keys,  1862,  and  still  so  printed  in  the  Household 
Edition.      See  "  Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Before  the  Curfew     (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  5, 
1882) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1882,  vol.  49,  pp.  386-388. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  204-208. 
Printed  under  the  title  "In  the  Twihght,"  in  Poems,  River- 
side Edition,  1891,  and  in  the  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Bells,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  to  "Spring." 

*  Beni-Israel 

Gifts  of  Genius,  a  Miscellany  of  Prose  and  Poetry,  1859, 
pp.  260-263. 

Berkshire  Festival,  Lines  recited  at  the 

See  "Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival." 


[11] 

Bill  and  Joe 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1868,  vol.  22,  pp.  313-314. 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 
121-123. 

"Although  not  written  for  a  meeting  of  the  Class,  yet  as 
the  Class  of  1829  is  the  subject  of  them,  and  one  of  the 
Class  their  author,  these  lines  belong  here."  Dr.  Holmes  read 
the  poem  to  the  Class  in  Jan.,  1869,  and  thereafter  it' was 
"one  of  the  Class  Poems  unmistakably  and  forever."  Since 
1877  it  has  stood,  without  date,  at  the  head  of  the  "Poems  of 
the  Class  of  1829,"  in  all  collected  editions. 

Birthday  of  Daniel  Webster   (Jan.  18,  1856) 

The  Seventy-Foiu'th  Aiiniversary  of  the  Birthday  of  Daniel 

Webster,  1856,  pp.  49-51. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Birthday  Tribute,  A.    To  J.  F.  Clarke    (April  4,  1860) 
Memorial  of  the  Commemoration  by  the  Church  of  the  Dis- 
ciples of  the  50th  Birthday  of  their  Pastor,  James  Free- 
man Clarke,  1860,  pp.  19-20. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Bonaparte,  August  15,  1769.  —  Humboldt,  September  14, 
1769 
Leaflet,  oblong  8vo. 

Address   deUvered   on   the    Centennial   Anniversary  of  the 
birth  of  Alexander  von  Humboldt,  etc.,  by  Louis  Agassiz. 
With  an  Account  of  the  Evening  Reception,  1869,  pp. 
86-88. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1869,  vol.  24,  pp.  637-638. 
"Last  week  we  had  a  Humboldt  celebration,  or  rather  two, 
in  Boston.  ...  Of  coxirse  I  wrote  a  poem,  which  I  had  the 
wonderful  good  sense  to  positively  refuse  deHvering  in  Music 
Hall  after  the  long  Address  of  Agassiz,  but  read  at  the  SoirSe 
afterwards.  I  thought  well  of  it,  as  I  am  apt  to,  and  others  liked 
it.    Applaud  my  abstinence  in  not  sending  it  to  you."    Holmes 
to  Motley,  Sept.  26,  1869,  in  Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of 
O.  W.  H.,  vol.  ii,  p.  184. 
See  "Humboldt's  Birthday." 


[12] 

Boston  Church  Bells  '* 

The  Boston  Book,  1850,  pp.  9-10. 

An  extract  from  "Urania,  a  Rhymed  Lesson."  A  portion 
of  the  same  extract  appears  in  Poetry  of  the  Bells,  collected  by 
S.  Batchelder,  Jr.,  1858,  p.  64.     See  "  A  Sabbath  in  Boston." 

Boston  Conunon  —  Three  Pictures  (1630,  1774,  186-) 
(For  the  Fair  in  aid  of  the  Fund  to  procure  Ball's  Statue 
of  Washington) 

Leaflet,  4to.  pp.  4,  1859.     See  Appendix,  p.  305,  infra. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Boston  to  Florence  (Sent  to  the  "  Philological  Circle "  of 
Florence  for  its  meeting  in  commemoration  of  Dante,  Jan. 
27,  1881,  anniversary  of  his  first  condemnation) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1881,  vol.  47,  p.  412. 
Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

Boston  Young  Men's  Christian  Union 

See  "Hymn  written  for  the  Twenty-fifth  Anniversary  of  the 
Reorganization,"  etc.,  and  "Youth." 

Boys,  The   (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1859) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1859,  vol.  3,  pp.  240-241,  m  the 

"Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  61-62. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1859,  pp.  29-31. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Brave  Old  South,  The 

"While  stands  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  stand; 
When  faUs  the  Coliseum,  Rome  shall  fall." 
Leaflet,  1  page. 

Poems  of  the  Old  South  (illustrated),  1877,  pp.  8-10. 
Copies  of  the  leaflet  were  sold  at  Libbie's  in  April,  1900,  for 
$5.75,  and  at  Anderson's  in  the  same  month  for  $9.00. 
See  "An  Appeal  for  the  Old  South." 

Britain  and  America 

Canadian   Joiu*nal  of   Agriculture,  July,  1858,  vol.  3,  pp. 
365-367. 


[13] 

Addressed  to  Charles  Mackay  at  Boston  "on  the  eve  of  his 
final  departure  from  American  shores  .  .  .  from  the  pen  of  the 
American  poet  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes." 

See  "A  Good  Time  Going." 

Broken  Circle,  The    (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 
1887) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1887,  vol.  59,  p.  842,  in  "  Our  Hun- 
dred Days  in  Europe." 
Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe,  1887,  pp.  111-113. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  223-225. 

Broomstick  Train,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.',  1890,  vol.  66,  pp.  246-248,  in  "  Over 

the  Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  226-230. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline  (March  25, 
1861) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1861,  vol.  7,  p.  613. 
Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union,  1861,  pp.  27-28. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Bryant's  Seventieth  Birthday  (November  3,  1864) 

The  Bryant  Festival  at  "  The  Century"  (illustrated),  1865 

(c.  1864),  pp.  43-47.^ 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1864,  vol.  14,  pp.  738-740. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

But  One  Talent 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1890,  vol.  66,  pp.  833-834. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Cacoethes  Scribendi 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1890,  vol.  65,  p.  412,  in  "  Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  p.  93. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

^  Only  150  copies  printed. 


[14] 

Cambridge  Churchyard,  The 

Poems,  1836,  pp.  16-20. 

Here  printed  as  a  part  of  "Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay,"  with- 
out separate  title;  in  the  contents,  however,  the  above  appears 
as  a  sub-title  imder  "  Poetry."  First  printed  as  a  separate 
poem  in  Blue  and  Gold  Edition,  1862. 

*  Camilla 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  153-154. 
Written  in  1855.  A  zealous  parishioner  of  St.  Stephen's, 
Pittsfield,  called  upon  Dr.  Holmes  to  ask  him  to  contribute  two 
poems  for  the  "post-office"  at  a  fair  to  be  given  by  the  parish. 
Having  promised  the  poems,  "Dr.  Holmes,  of  course,  escorted 
his  fair  besieger  to  the  door;  and  in  assisting  her  to  remount 
her  horse,  being  perhaps  poetically  nervous,  he  did  not  calcu- 
late with  precise  accuracy  the  amount  of  force  necessary  to 
place  her  gracefully  in  her  seat.  The  saddle  was,  however, 
gained  without  a  fall.  But  the  poet,  busy  as  he  was,  did  not 
forget  the  incident,  and  when  the  fair  postmistress  received  the 
two  poems  promised  for  her  mail,  there  came  also  one  for  Miss 

M which  described  it  with  his  never-failing  grace,  wit, 

and  accuracy."  —  Smith,  pp.  151-153. 

The  gray  robe  trailing  round  her  feet, 

She  smiled  and  took  the  slippered  stirrup 
(A  smile  as  sparkling,  rosy,  sweet. 

As  soda,  drawn  with  strawberry  syrup) ;  — 
Now,  gallant,  now!  be  strong  and  calm,  — 

The  graceful  toilet  is  completed,  — 
Her  foot  is  in  thy  hollowed  palm  — 

One  little  spring,  and  she  is  seated! 

No  foot-print  on  the  grass  was  seen. 

The  clover  hardly  bent  beneath  her, 
I  knew  not  if  she  pressed  the  green, 

Or  floated  over  it  in  ether; 
Why,  such  an  airy,  fairy  thing 

Should  carry  ballast  in  her  pocket,  — 
God  bless  me!    K  I  help  her  spring 

She'll  shoot  up  heavenward  like  a  rocket. 

Ah,  fatal  doubt!    The  sleepless  power 
That  chains  the  orbs  of  light  together, 


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Bends  on  its  stem  the  slenderest  flower 
That  lifts  its  plume  from  turf  or  heather; 

Clasp,  lady,  clasp  the  bridle  rein! 

The  filly  stands  —  hold  hard  upon  her! 

Twine  fast  those  fingers  in  her  mane. 
Or  all  is  lost  —  excepting  honor! 

Earth  stretched  his  arms  to  snatch  his  prize. 
The  fairies  shouted  "Stand  from  under!'* 
The  violets  shut  their  purple  eyes. 

The  naked  daisies  stared  in  wonder; 
One  moment.  —  Seated  in  her  pride. 
Those  arms  shall  try  in  vain  to  win  her; 
"Earth  claims  her  not,"  the  fairies  cried, 
"She  has  so  little  of  it  in  her!'* 

*  Cannibal,  The 

Collegian,  April,  1830,  no.  3,  pp.  103-106. 
Chambered  Nautilus,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,   1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  468-469,  in  the 

"  Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  110-111. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Mr.  Foley  catalogues  a  privately  printed  edition  of  The 
Chambered  Nautilus  (12mo,  Cambridge,  1879),  with  a  transla- 
tion into  Latin,  signed  E.  S.  D.  A  copy  of  this  edition  was  sold 
at  Libbie's  in  April,  1897,  for  $13.00.  At  the  Edwin  P.  Whipple 
Sale,  in  April,  1903,  the  original  ms.  of  the  poem,  with  this 
inscription  :  "  For  Mr.  Whipple,  with  kindest  regards  and  good 
wishes,  Christmas  "  [1879],  was  sold  for  $65.00. 

Chanson  without  Music.  By  the  Professor  Emeritus  of  Dead 
and  Live  Languages  (<J>.  B.  K.  Cambridge,  1867) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1867,  vol.  20,  pp.  543-544. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Chinese  Embassy,  At  the  Banquet  to  the 
See  "At  the  Banquet,**  etc. 

Choose  You  this  Day  whom  Ye  will  Serve    (Read  at  the 
Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8,  1863) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1863,  vol.  11,  pp.  288-289. 


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Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  69-71. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
See  Appendix,  p.  305,  infra. 

*  City  Madrigals  (By  the  Author  of  State  Prison  Melodies) 
The  Amateur,  April  9,  1831,  no.  18,  p.  275.  Signed  O.  W.  H. 

Clarke,  James  Freeman 

See  "A  Birthday  Tribute,"  and  "To  James  Freeman  Clarke." 

Class  of  '29.    Nov.  6,  1856 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  "Our  Indian  Summer." 

Claudian  Aqueduct,  The 

The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1837  [c.  1836],  pp.  337- 
338. 

In  Table  of  Contents,  "Roman  Aqueduct,  by  O.  W.  Holmes." 
The  poem  is  accompanied  by  a  cut  representing  the  ruins  of 
an  aqueduct,  and  there  is  a  head-note,  which,  after  describing 
the  cut,  continues:  "The  following  Hues  handed  us  by  a  friend, 
though  not  accurately  descriptive  of  this  aqueduct,  are  full  of 
beauty,  and  suggest  many  thoughts  and  feelings  appropriate  to 
the  scene." 

See  "A  Roman  Aqueduct." 

Comet,  The 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  April,  1832,  vol.  2, 

pp.  300-301. 
Poems,  1836. 
The  Boston  Book,  1837,  pp.  37-39. 

Coming  Era,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1880,  vol.  45,  pp.  84-85. 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

Contentment 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  502-503;  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  312-315. 

C[rocker],  F[rederick]  W[illiam] 
See  "Our  Classmate,  F  W.  C." 


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Crooked  Footpath,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1859,  vol.  3,  p.  503,  in  the  "Pro- 
fessor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  128-129. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

*  Crossing  the  Ford 

Youth's  Keepsake;  a  Christmas  and  New  Year's  Gift  for 

Young  People,  1831,  p.  198. 
American  Common-Place  Book  of  Poetry,  Geo.  B.  Cheever, 

editor,  1831,  pp.  396-397. 

Clouds,  forests,  hills  and  waters !  —  and  they  sleep 
As  if  a  spirit  pressed  their  pulses  down,  — 

From  the  calm  bosona  of  the  waveless  deep 
Up  to  the  mountain  with  the  sunlit  crown. 

Still  as  the  moss-grown  cities  of  the  dead. 

Save  the  dull  plashing  of  the  horse's  tread. 

And  who  are  they  that  stir  the  slumbering  stream  ? 

Nay,  curious  reader,  I  can  only  say 
That,  to  my  eyes  of  ignorance,  they  seem 

Like  honest  rustics  on  their  homeward  way; 
There  is  a  village;  doubtless  thence  they  came; 
There  was  a  christening;  and  they  have  a  name. 

They  are  to  us,  Hke  many  a  Kving  form, 
The  image  of  a  moment,  and  they  pass 

Like  the  last  cloud  that  vanished  on  the  storm, 
Like  the  last  shape  upon  the  faithless  glass; 

By  lake,  or  stream,  by  valley,  field,  or  hill. 

They  must  have  lived;  perchance  are  Hving  still. 

Daily  Trials,  by  a  Sensitive  Man 
Poems,  1836. 

Originally  appeared  in  [Buckingham's]  New  England  Maga- 
zine, vol.  3,  p.  21,  under  the  title  "Ugly  Reflections." 

De  Sauty.    An  Electro-Chemical  Eclogue 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1859,  vol.  3,  p.  96,  in  the  "  Pro- 
fessor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  33-35. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 


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Deacon's  Masterpiece,  The:  or  the  Wonderful  One-Hoss 
Shay 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  496-497,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  295-298. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

*  "  Dear  little  Dorothy,  Dorothy  Q  " 

Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (Morse),  1896, 
vol.  i,  p.  231. 

When  Dr.  Holmes  heard  of  the  birth  of  a  daughter  to  his 
nephew  and  namesake,  O.  W.  H.  Upham,  and  that  she  was 
named  Dorothy  Q.,  "he  wrote  and  sent  to  his  Kttle  grand- 
niece  a  couple  of  stanzas,  which  make  a  pretty  pendant  to  the 
original  poem  [Dorothy  Q.].*'  The  ms.  of  the  poem  is  still  in 
the  possession  of  the  young  lady  to  whom  it  was  addressed.  It 
was  written  in  1882. 

"Dear  Httle  Dorothy,  Dorothy  Q., 
WTiat  can  I  find  to  write  to  you  ? 
You  have  two  U's  in  your  name,  it*s  true, 
And  mine  is  adorned  with  a  double-u; 
But  there's  this  difference  in  the  U's, 
That  one  you  will  stand  a  chance  to  lose 
When  a  happy  man  of  the  bearded  sex 
Shall  make  it  Dorothy  Q.  +  X. 

"  May  Heaven  smile  bright  on  the  blissful  day 
That  teaches  this  lesson  in  Algebra! 
When  the  orange  blossoms  crown  your  head. 
Then  read  what  your  old  great-uncle  said. 
And  remember  how  in  your  baby-time 
He  scribbled  a  scrap  of  idle  rhyme,  — 
Idle,  it  may  be  —  but  kindly,  too. 
For  the  little  lady,  Dorothy  Q." 

Departed  Days 

The  Boston  Book,  1841,  p.  298. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

*  Departtire,  The  (The  Athenaeum  Gallery) 

The  Amateur,  June  15,  1830,  no.  1,  p.  16. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  32-34.  • 


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*  Destroyers,  The 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  March,  1832,  vol.  2, 
p.  202. 

Dialogue,  A.    Senex — Juvenis  (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting. 
Jan.  9,  1879) 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

•  180-183. 
Printed  "with  some  changes"  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for 
Aug.,  1880,  under  the  title  "The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias." 

Dickens,  Charles,  Dinner  given  to,  by  the  Young  Men  of 
Boston 
See  "Song,  written  for  the  Dinner,"  etc. 
Dilemma,  The 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Jan.,  1832,  vol.  2, 

p.  36. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  46-48. 
Poems,  1836. 

Disappointed  Statesman,  The 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

See  "The  Statesman's  Secret,"  "Readings  over  the  Tea- 
cups," and  "  Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

*  Dollar's  Worth,  A 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  156-157. 

This  was  the  second  of  the  poems  written  by  Dr.  Holmes  in 
1855  for  the  "post-office"  in  connection  with  the  St.  Stephen's 
Church  fair.  (See  "Camilla,"  and  "Fair  lady,  whosoe'er  thou 
art.")    The  motto  on  the  envelope  was: 

"If  man,  or  boy,  or  dolt,  or  scholar 

Will  break  this  seal,  he  pays  his  dollar; 
But  if  he  reads  a  single  minute. 

He'll  find  a  dollar* s  worth  within  it" 

*  Domestic  Thoughts 

The  Amateur,  Sept.  4,  1830,  no.  6,  p.  92. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  40-41. 


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Dorchester  Giant,  The 

The  Collegian,  April,  1830,  no.  3,  pp.  123-125. 
Poems,  1836. 

Dorothy  Q 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1871,  vol.  27,  pp.  120-121. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Dream,  The  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Nov.,  1854) 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1859,  pp.  14-16. 
See  "The  Old  Man  Dreams." 

Dying  Seneca,  The 

The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  31-32. 

Poems,  1836. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Not  in  Household  or  Riverside  Edition. 

*  Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret 

In  the  Mercantile  Library  Reporter  ("conducted  by  the 
Literary  Committees  of  the  Mercantile  Library  Association") 
for  January,  1856,  vol.  2,^  pp.  36-40,  is  a  report  of  the  opening 
of  the  fifteenth  annual  course  of  public  lectures  before  the  As- 
sociation, on  Wednesday  [Thursday],  Nov.  15,  1855,  when  an 
address  was  delivered  by  Prof.  F.  D.  Huntington  of  Cambridge, 
and  a  poem  by  Dr.  Holmes.  After  a  sketch  of  Prof.  Hunting- 
ton's remarks  the  report  continues  (p.  38) :  — 

"The  new  poem  by  Dr.  Holmes,  *Each  heart  has  its  own 
Secret,'  was  the  next  grand  feature  of  the  evening.  Although  not 
written  in  the  Doctor's  most  hmnorous  vein,  it  nevertheless 
abounded  in  many  sly  hits  and  jocose  allusions,  and,  when 
published  (as  it  soon  will  be,  with  Mr.  Huntington's  address, 
imder  the  auspices  of  the  Association),  we  are  confident  that 
it  will  be  eagerly  sought  for  and  read  with  intense  pleasure,  and 
will  prove  to  be  the  happiest  of  the  genial  author's  many  happy 
efforts.  .  .  . 

"The  unity  of  the  poem  consisted  in  the  fact  that  all  its  parts 
illustrated  the  truth  that  'Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret.'  The 
illustrations  were  five  in  number,  each  of  them  a  distinct,  in- 
dependent narrative  or  picture. 

*  Only  three  volumes  of  this  periodical  were  published. 


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"The  first  may  be  called  *The  Island  Ruin.'  Such  a  ruin  as 
is  described  is  still  to  be  seen  in  Boston  Harbor.  The  life  of  its 
former  occupant  was  a  mystety  [sic].  His  secret  perished  with 
him. 

"The  second  narrative,  or  picture,  is  *The  Banker's  Dinner.' 
The  supposed  rich  man  gives  a  great  banquet,  which  is  de- 
scribed. His  secret  comes  out  at  the  end  of  the  feast. 

"The  third  story  is  that  of  a  young  Roman,  who  was  sick,  and 
nobody  could  tell  what  was  the  matter  with  him.  A  Greek 
physician  came  and  found  out  his  secret.  This  story  is  a  varia- 
tion on  the  old  stories  of  Erasistratus  and  Galen. 

"The  fourth  picture  is  that  of  a  statesman  who  is  unhappy 
in  the  midst  of  his  triumphs.  His  secret,  which  all  the  world 
guesses,  is  a  devouring  ambition  to  reach  a  certain  high  office 
which  really  great  men  ought  not  to  expect  in  these  times. 

"The  fifth  picture  is  that  of  Mary,  the  Virgin  Mother,  who 
kept  the  secret  of  her  wonderful  child  in  her  own  heart. 

"The  concluding  lines  relate  to  the  secrets  of  the  earth,  of  the 
stars,  and  of  their  Creator. 

"In  an  introduction  of  about  a  hundred  hues,  a  veteran  actor 
is  brought  before  the  curtain,  and  his  feehngs  and  recollections 
traced  in  a  few  sketches. 

"We  subjoin  some  passages  from  different  parts  of  the  poem. 

The  compiler  has  been  unable  to  discover  any  direct  evidence 
that  the  address  and  poem  were  ever  pubhshed  "  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Association;"  inquiry  at  the  rooms  of  the  Asso- 
ciation, which  is  still  in  existence,  in  its  86th  year,  failed  to 
disclose  any  trace  of  such  publication.  But  the  following  pass- 
ages of  a  letter  from  J.  L.  Motley,  to  Dr.  Holmes,  dated  May  3, 
1857,  prove  conclusively  that  this  same  poem  was  sent  -^  it  may 
have  been  in  print,  or  in  manuscript,  but  as  a  single  poem  —  to 
the  historian;  the  last  sentence,  it  will  be  noticed,  identifies  the 
place  where  it  was  deHvered. 

"I  have  read  your  poem  a  great  many  times,  and  have 
admired  it  more  at  each  successive  reading.  Each  of  the  episodes 
has  freshness,  strength  and  beauty,  and  the  whole  fabric  is 
simple  and  noblev  .  .  .  The  episode  of  the  young  Roman  is 
handled  with  much  classic  elegance,  as  well  as  with  great  tender- 
ness and  truth.  The  best  portion,  however,  is  that  which 
embodies  the  mother's  secret.  .  .  ,  The  Webster  photograph 
is  bold,  shadowy  and  imposing,  but  would  probably  ehcit  more 


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hearty  applause  from  a  public  auaience  than  from  some  of  us 
who  have  perhaps  pondered  too  much  the  unheroic  and  the 
unpoetical  elements  which  constituted  so  much  of  that  golden- 
hearted  and  clay-footed  image. 

"The  same  remark  I  should  be  inclined  to  make  upon  the 
fraudulent  banker.  I  suppose  that  you  will  not  agree  with  me, 
and  very  likely  it  is  some  narrowness  on  my  part,  or  over- 
squeamishness,  but  the  particulars  of  a  modern  dinner-party 
will  refuse  to  make  poetry  to  my  imagination.  .  .  .  The  de- 
scription of  the  ruined  home  on  Apple  Island  is  almost  the  best 
thing  in  the  poem.  ,  .  . 

"  But  you  cannot  do  what  I  viish  you  to  do  except  upon  two 
conditions:  one,  devotion  of  your  faculties  and  of  your  time  to 
the  one  great  object;  the  other,  cotton-wooling  your  ears  abso- 
lutely to  all  hand-clapping  and  greasy  mob-applause  of  mer- 
cantile lecture-rooms."  ^ 

When  Dr.  Holmes  published  the  collection  called  "Songs 
in  Many  Keys,"  in  1862,  he  included  therein,  under  the  sub- 
heading, "Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  1850-1856," 
certain  portions  of  the  Yale  Plii  Beta  Kappa  poem  of  1850: 
"  Astraea"  (see  supra,  p.  7),  and  the  following  seven  poems,  \dz., 
"The  Old  Player,"  "The  Island  Ruin,"  "The  Banker's  Din- 
ner," "The  Mysterious  Illness,"  "A  Mother's  Secret,"  "The 
Disappointed  Statesman,"  and  "The  Secret  of  the  Stars." 
These  poems  were  pubhshed  under  the  same  sub-heading,  and 
w^th  the  same  titles,  in  all  subsequent  collections  prior  to  the 
Riverside  Edition  in  1895,^  when  all  of  them  save  the  first 
were  arranged  in  a  new  setting,  with  a  prelude  and  interludes, 
and  under  different  titles,  with  the  exception  of  "The  Secret 
of  the  Stars."  "The  Old  Player"  was  left  by  itself  among  the 
Songs  in  Many  Keys. 

Now,  it  appears  from  the  passages  of  "Each  Heart  has  its  own 
Secret  '*  printed  in  the  Mercantile  Library  Reporter  that  these 

^  The  morning  papers  of  Thursday,  Nov.  15,  report  this  meeting  of  the 
Association,  and  the  Advertiser  gives  an  outline  of  the  poem  at  some 
length.  •'  The  general  theme  was '  The  Heart's  Secret.' "  —  The  Post  says : 
"  The  poem  was  a  mystery.  It  abounded  in  the  humor  with  which  the 
Doctor  is  surcharged,  revealing  itself  in  flashes  of  jetty  light  ...  all 
woven  in  a  mystical  braid,  that  like  a  strain  of  wild  music,  puzzled  the 
mind  to  understand  it.  but  made  the  heart  feel  better  as  it  listened." 

^  And  are  still  so  printed  in  the  Household  Edition. 


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seven  poems  were  originally  embodied  in  the  long  poem  of  that 
title  read  before  the  Mercantile  Library  Association.  The 
"introduction  of  about  a  hundred  lines'*  is  "The  Old  Player," 
which  has  120.  *'The  Island  Ruin"  retains  its  name,  as  does 
"The  Banker's  Dinner;"  "the  story  of  the  young  Roman" 
(named  Lucius)  is  "The  Mysterious  Illness;"  "The  Disap- 
pointed Statesman"  retains  its  name,  while  the  "picture  of 
Mary,  the  Virgin  Mother,"  becomes  "A  Mother's  Secret."  * 

The  Riverside  Edition  of  the  Poems  was  prepared  under  the 
personal  supervision  of  Dr.  Holmes,  so  that  the  separation  of 
"The  Old  Player"  from  its  fellows  was  presumably  intentional; 
but  the  editor  of  the  Cambridge  Edition  was  evidently  not  aware 
of  the  history  of  these  poems,  as  he  gives  1850-1856  as  the  date 
of  composition  of  those  included  in  "Readings  over  the  Tea- 
cups;" whereas  it  is  clear  enough  that  those  dates,  1850-1856, 
meant  that  the  extracts  from  "Astraea"  belonged  in  1850,  and 
the  others  in  1856  (1855).  Furthermore,  in  the  Cambridge  Edi- 
tion 1859  is  suggested  as  the  probable  date  of  "The  Old  Player." 

Almost  all  of  the  passages  given  in  the  Reporter  show  some 
variations  from  the  present  text  of  the  corresponding  passages 
of  the  separate  poems,  and  a  number  of  hues  are  omitted 
altogether.  For  instance,  at  the  close  of  the  introduction,  the 
subject  of  the  poem  is  announced  thus : 

"The  Heart's  own  Secret!    How  a  single  word 
Would  tell  our  history,  and  we  die  unheard! 
When  Love's  dear  witchery  makes  us  more  than  kind; 
When  Friendship  lifts  the  flood-gates  of  the  mind; 
When  the  red  wine-cup  brings  its  half-eclipse. 
And  the  heart's  night-birds  flutter  round  the  lips; 
That  single  word  the  faithful  traitors  shun: 
Tell  follies,  sins  and  secrets  —  all  but  one. 
Behold  the  simple  thread  that  intertwines 
Its  sober  strand  along  my  pictured  Unes." 

And  from  the  conclusion  (The  Secret  of  the  Stars),  these  Unes 
are  quoted,  referring  to  the  national  flag: 

"One  hue  it  borrows  from  the  tropic  rose. 
And  one  comes  glistening  from  the  polar  snows; 

*  It  had  already  appeared  under  that  title  in  "  The  Professor  at  the 
Breakfast-Table,"  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  June,  1859. 


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Forever  braided,  till  the  crownless  Queen 
Sweeps  with  its  folds  the  mighty  world  between!" 

Neither  of  these  passages  is  to  be  found  in  any  edition  of 
Dr.  Holmes's  poems. 

In  rearranging  the  titles  for  resetting  these  poems,  Dr.  Holmes 
recurred  to  the  original  idea  suggested  in  the  title  "Each  Heart 
has  its  own  Secret:"  "The  Island  Ruin"  becomes  "The  Exile's 
Secret;"  "The  Banker's  Dinner,"  "The  Banker's  Secret;" 
"The  Mysterious  Illness,"  "The  Lover's  Secret;"  and  "The 
Disappointea  Statesman,"  "The  Statesman's  Secret." 

Enigma,  An 

The  Collegian,  Feb.,  1830,  no.  1,  p.  43. 

Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series.   Autocrat  —  Pro- 
fessor —  Poet.    At  a  Bookstore,  a.  d.  1972 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1872,  vol.  30,  pp.  733-734,  in  the 

"Poet." 
Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  410-412. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Even-Song 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1870,  vol.  25,  pp.  349-351. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
See  "Ad  Sodales." 

Evening,  by  a  Tailor 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  pp.  255-256. 

The  Gleaner,  1830. 

The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  56-58. 

Poems,  1836. 

Evening  Thought,  An.    Lines  written  at  Sea 

Poems,  1836. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "Lines  Written  at  Sea  " 
(unsigned),  in  American  Monthly  Magazine,  May,  1836,  vol.  7, 
pp.  183-184. 

Everett,  Edward 

See  "Our  First  Citizen." 
Exile's  Secret,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 


*      [25] 

Originally  printed,  under  the  title  "  The  Island  Ruin,"  as  one 
of  the  group  Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  in  Songs  in 
Many  Keys,  1862,  and  still  so  printed  in  the  Household  Edition. 
See  "Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Extracts  from  a  Medical  Poem 
Poems,  1849. 

These  "  extracts  "  are  "  The  Stability  of  Science,"  "A  Portrait," 
and  "A  Sentiment."   The  second,  the  subject  of  which  was  the 
universally  beloved  and  respected   Dr.  James  Jackson,  was 
shghtly  changed  in  subsequent  editions,  the  first  line, 
"Simple  in  youth,  but  not  austere  in  age," 
becoming  "Thoughtful  in  youth,"  etc. 

*  "  Fair  lady,  whosoever  thou  art " 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  155- 

156. 
This  is  one  of  the  two  poems  written  by  Dr.  Holmes  in 
1855  for  the  "post-office"  in  connection  with  the  entertainment 
given  by  St.  Stephen's  Parish,  Pittsfield.  (See  "Camilla.") 
"The  poem  was  inclosed  in  an  envelope  upon  which  was 
written  this  motto: 

"Faith  is  the  conquering  Angel's  crown; 
Who  hopes  for  grace  must  ask  it; 
Look  shrewdly  ere  you  lay  me  down, 
I'm  Portia's  leaden  casket." 

Within  the  envelope  was  the  poem: 

"Fair  lady,  whosoe'er  thou  art, 

Turn  this  poor  leaf  with  tenderest  care. 
And  —  hush,  O  hush  thy  beating  heart  — 
The  One  thou  lovest  will  be  there! 

"Alas!  not  loved  by  thee  alone. 
Thine  idol,  ever  prone  to  range; 
To-day,  all  thine,  to-morrow  flown. 

Frail  thing  that  every  hour  may  change. 

"Yet,  when  that  truant  course  is  done. 
If  thy  lost  wanderer  reappear. 
Press  to  thy  heart  thy  only  One 
That  nought  can  make  more  truly  dear!" 


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Within  this  sheet  was  a  slip  oi  paper,  with  the  following 
verses,  inclosing  a  one  dollar  bill: 

"Fair  lady,  lift  thine  eyes  and  tell 
If  this  is  not  a  truthful  letter; 
This  is  the  one  (1)  thou  lovest  well. 

And  nought  (0)  can  make  thee  love  it  better  (10). 

"Though  fickle,  do  not  think  it  strange 
That  such  a  friend  is  worth  possessing. 
For  one  that  gold  can  never  change 

Is  Heaven's  own  dearest  earthly  blessing." 

*  Fairy  World,  The 

Youth's  Keepsake;  a  Christmas  and  New  Year's  Gift  for 
Young  People,  1831,  pp.  207-209. 

Familiar  Letter  to  Several  Correspondents,  A 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1876,  vol.  37,  p.  103. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Family  Record,  A 

The  Independent,  July  12,  1877. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Fantasia 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1872,  vol.  29,  p.  236,  in  the  "Poet." 
Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  71-72. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Farewell  to  Agassiz,  A   (Written  on  the  Eve  of  Agassiz's 
journey  to  Brazil,  in  1865) 
Humorous  Poems,  1865. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Farewell  to  J.  R.  Lowell,  A 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 
See  "A  Good-by." 

First  Fan,  The  (Read  at  a  Meeting  of  the  Boston  Bric-a- 
Brac  Club,  February  21,  1877) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1877,  vol.  39,  pp.  659-662. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 


[27] 

First  Verses  (Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  1824  or  1825) 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Translation  from  the  ^neid.  Book  I.  "It  is  sijrty-one  years 
since  I  read  my  first  verses  at  Phillips  Academy."  Dr.  Holmes's 
speech  at  the  first  dinner  of  the  P.  A.  Alumni  Association, 
March  24,  1886. 

*  Fish-Pieces,  The 

The  Amateur,  June  15,  1830,  no.  l,pp.  12-13.    In  "Annual 
Exhibition  of  Paintings." 

Flaneur,  The  (Boston  Common,  Dec.  6,  1882,  during  the 
Transit  of  Venus) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1883,  vol.  51,  pp.  674-677. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  Flies,  The  (Poetry  of  Real  Life) 

The  Amateur,  Sept.  4,  1830,  no.  6,  p.  90. 

Flower  of  Liberty,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1861,  vol.  8,  p.  550. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

For  the  Bums  Centennial  Celebration  (Jan.  25,  1859) 

Celebration    of   the    Hundredth  Anniversary  of   the  Birth 
of   Robert  Burns  by  the  Boston   Burns  Club,  1859,  pp. 
44-45. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

For  the  Centennial  Dinner  of  the  Proprietors  of  Boston  Pier, 
or  the  Long  Wharf  (April  16,  1873) 
Centennial  of  the  Boston  Pier,  or  the  Long  Wharf  Corpora- 
tion, 1873,  pp.  18-20  (preceded  by  remarks  by  O.  W.  H.). 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

For  Class  Meeting  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan. 
7,  1875) 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

160-161. 
Here  printed  with  no  other  title  than  "  Lines." 


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For  the  Commemoration   Serviies  (Cambridge,  July  21, 
1865) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

There  seems  to  have  been  no  separate  publication  of  the 
exercises  on  this  occasion  except  Mr.  Lowell's  Commemora- 
tion Ode.  Harvard  College  preserves  the  record  of  the  day  in 
a  copy  of  the  New  York  Times  for  Tuesday,  July  25,  1865. 

For  the  Dedication  of  the  New  City  Library,  Boston 

Proceedings  on  the  Occasion  of  Laying  the  Corner-Stone 
of  the  New  Library  Building  of  the  City  of  Boston,  Nov. 
28,  1888  (1889),  pp.  17-20.  (Page  17  is  a  half-title.  The 
poem  is  on  pp.  19-20.) 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

For  the  Meeting  of  the  Bums  Club,  1856 

Celebration  of  the  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Birth  of 
Robert  Burns,  by  the  Boston  Burns  Club,  1859,  pp.  19-21. 

In  "Record  of  Transactions'*  of  the  Burns  Club,  imder  date 
of  Jan.  25,  1856  (97th  anniversary).  The  poem  as  printed  in 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  and  since,  is  thus  introduced : 

"The  following  witty  introduction,  and  beautiful  poem,  were 
read  by  Dr.  Ohver  Wendell  Holmes,  one  of  the  guests  on  the 
occasion,  and  always  a  cherished  friend  of  the  Club: 

"  I  have  come  with  the  rest,  I  can  hardly  tell  why. 
With  a  line  I  will  read  you  before  it  is  dry. 
I  know  I've  no  business  among  you,  full  well. 
But  I'm  here,  notwithstanding,  and  how,  I  will  tell. 

"  It  was  not  a  billet  beginning  'Dear  Sir;' 
No  missive  like  that  would  have  coaxed  me  to  stir; 
Nor  a  ticket,  announcing  the  'on'  and  the  'at,' 
And  'requesting  the  honor,*  —  't  was  better  than  that. 

"  It  was  done  by  a  visit,  from  one  that  you  know. 
Whose  smile  is  unchilled  by  life's  season  of  snow. 
Whose  voice  is  so  winning,  resist  as  you  may. 
You  must  do  what  it  says,  for  it  will  have  its  way. 

"  It  is  true  that  at  first  I  began  to  suggest 
I  should  sit  like  a  stranger  apart  from  the  rest; 


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But  he  said:  'To  no  clan  is  our  banquet  confined, 
For  the  heart  of  the  poet  belongs  to  mankind.' 

"  Then  I  timidly  asked,  '  Can  I  run,  at  a  pinch. 
If  our  friends  from  the  old  world  have  learned  how  to  lynch  ?' 
For  I  thought  with  dismay  of  the  Know-Nothing  Crew, 
And  I  fancied  a  yell  —  *He's  a  Know-Nothing  too!' 

"  I  thought  of  old  Porteous,  of  Hare  and  of  Burke; 
I  remembered  the  witches  of  Alloway  Kirk;  — 
'Why  bless  you,'  he  said  with  a  smile,  'if  you're  cotched, 
You  will  never  be  killed,  you  will  only  be  Scotched  T 

"  So  I  came,  and  I'm  here,  with  a  line  as  I  said; 
I  don't  mean  the  verses  that  just  have  been  read. 
But  the  ones  in  my  pocket,  and  so,  if  you  please. 
You  shall  hear  them  at  once  if  you'll  pardon  me  these." 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

For  the  Meeting  of  the  National  Sanitary  Association  (1860) 
Proceedings   and  Debates  of  the  Fourth  National  Quaran- 
tine and  Sanitary  Convention,  Boston,  1860,  pp.  135-136. 
Remarks  by  O.  W.  H.  on  pp.  134-135. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

For  the  Moore  Centennial  Celebration  (May  28, 1879) 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

For  the  Services  in  Memory  of  Abraham  Lincoln 

Memorial  Services  in  Honor  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  at  Music 

Hall,  Boston,  June  1,  1865;  Order  of  Services,  p.  3. 
A  Memorial  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  etc.,  1865. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

For  the  Window  in  St.  Margaret's  (In  Memory  of  a  Son 
of  Archdeacon  Farrar) 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

For  Whittier's  Seventieth  Birthday  (Dec.  17,  1877) 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 
Forbes,  John  Murray 

See  "To  J.  M.  F." 


[30] 

Fountain  of  Youth,    The  (Read  at   the  Meeting  of  the 
Harvard  Alumni  Association,  June  25,  1873) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1873,  vol.  32,  pp.  209-210. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Freedom,  our  Queen 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

From  a  Bachelor's  Private  Journal 

The  Amate-JT,  July  3,  1830,  no.  2,  p.  22. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  39-40. 
Poems,  1836. 

Garfield,  President,  On  the  Death  of 

See  "On  the  Death  of  President  Garfield." 

*  Gipsy,  The 

The  Amateur,  June  15,  1830,  no.  1,  p.  13.   In  "Annual  Exhi- 
bition of  Paintings." 

Girdle  of   Friendship,  The    (Read  at   the  Class   Meeting, 
Jan.  10,  1884) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1884,  vol.  53,  pp.  386-387. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  213-214. 

God  Save  the  Flag 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1865,  vol.  15,  p.  115. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Golden  Flower,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Good  Time  Going,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1858,  vol.   2,  pp.  244-245,  in  the 

"  Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  259-261. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Printed  in  the  Canadian  Journal  of  Agriculture,  July,  1858, 
vol.  3,  pp.  365-367,  under  the  title  "Britain  and  America,"  which 


[31] 

Good-by,  A.   To  J.  R.  Lowell  (April  29,  1855) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  "A  Farewell  to  J.  R.  Lowell." 

Gould,  Dr.  Benjamin  Apthorp,  A  Welcome  to 

See  "A  Welcome  to  Dr.  Benjamin  Apthorp  Gould." 

*  Graduate^s  Song,  The 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  p.  282. 
Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle 

Memorial,  Bunker  Hill,  1875,  pp.  1-4  (pages  unnumbered).^ 

Proceedings  of  Mass.  Historical  Society,  May  13,  1875,  vol. 
14,  pp.  33-36. 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

A  Memorial  of  the  American  Patriots  who  fell  at  the  Battle 
of  Bunker  Hill,  June  17,  1775.  With  an  account  of  the 
Dedication  of  the  Memorial  Tablets  on  Winthrop  Square, 
Charlestown,  June  17,  1889,  etc.,  pp.  245-250. 

Gray  Chief,  The  (1859) 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Grisette,  La 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  April,  1836,  n.  s.  vol.  1,  p. 

377. 
Poems,  1836. 

Hail,  Columbia !    (Additional  Verses,  written  at  the  request 
of  the  Committee  for  the  Constitutional  Centennial  Cele- 
bration at  Philadelphia,  1887) 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Halleck  [Fitz-Greene]  Monument,  Dedication  of 

See  "Poem  at  the  Dedication,"  etc. 

^  ^  This  is  a  quarto  pamphlet  of  16  unnumbered  pages ;  ornamental 
cover  and  title-page  combined:  view  of  Bunker  Hill  on  iaside  of  front 
cover;  poem,  "The  Crossed  Swords,"  by  N.  L.  Frothingham,  on  inside  of 
back  cover;  cut  of  monument  on  back  cover;  pictorial  borders  to  all  the 
pages,  and  numerous  portraits  and  cuts.  Boston,  James  R.  Osgood  and  Co. 
On  page  1  is  the  following  note :  "As  this  poem  is  written  expressly 
for  this  Memorial  and  not  intended  for  publication  elsewhere,  the  Pub- 
lishers request  that  it  be  not  copied  or  reprinted." 


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Harvard  (Read  at  the  Commencfement  Dinner,  1880) 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Harvard:  Two  Sonnets — Christo  et  Ecclesiae:  Veritas 

Leaflet. 

Proceedings  of  the  Harvard  Club  of  New  York  City  at  their 

12th  annual  dinner,  held  at  Delmonico's,  Feb.   21,   1878, 

p.  16.1 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

Harvard  College,  Alumni  of 

See  "Meeting  of  the  Alumni,"  etc.,  "The  Old  Cruiser,"  and 
"Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum." 

Harvard  College,  Centennial  Celebration  of 

See  "A  Song  for  the  Centennial,"  etc. 
Harvard  College,  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of 

See  "Poem  for  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversar}%" 
etc. 

*  Hast  thou  a  look  for  me,  love? 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1831,  vol.  1, 
p.  319,  m  "  A  Week  of  Frailty." 

Hayes,  Rutherford  Burchard 
See  "To  R.  B.  H." 

Hedge,  Frederick  Henry 

See  "To  Frederick  Henry  Hedge." 
Height  of  the  Ridiculous,  The 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  pp.  285-286. 

Poems,  1836. 

Home 

Exercises  in  celebrating  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anni- 
versary of  the  Settlement  of  Cambridge,  Dec.  28,  1880 
(1881),  pp.  33-35. 

See  "Our  Home  — Our  Country." 

^  On  pp.  16-17  of  the  same  pamphlet  is  a  letter  of  Dr.  Holmes  to  Mr. 
John  O.  Sargent,  which  is  printed  also  in  Mr.  Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of 
O.  W.  H.,  vol.  i,  pp.  236-238. 


[33] 

Homesick  in  Heaven 

Atlantic  Monthly,  January,  1872,  vol.  29,  pp.  103-104,  in  the 

"Poet." 
Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  37-40. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Hot  Season,  The 
Poems,  1836. 
*  "  *  How  came  I  here  ? '     The  Portrait  thus  might  speak  " 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  May  5, 1892,  vol.  126, 

pp.  451-452. 
See  Appendix,  pp.  306-309,  infra. 

How  not  to  Settle  It   (Read  to  the  Class,  Jan.  4,  1877) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1877,  vol.  39,  pp.  257-259. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 
168-173. 

How  the  Old  Horse  won  the  Bet.  Dedicated  by  a  con- 
tributor to  The  Collegian,  1830,  to  the  Editors  of  the 
Harvard  Advocate,  1876. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1876,  vol.  38,  pp.  44-48. 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

New  Verses  from  the  Harvard  Advocate,  privately  printed 
[1886],  pp.  xv-xxii.^ 

On  page  xxiii  of  the  volume  last  cited  is  the  following  note: 
"*How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet,'  was  read  at  one  of  the 
Advocate  dinners.  Mr.  Lowell  and  Harvard's  poets,  of  the 
Advocate  staff,  were  upon  the  course  that  day,  to  bestow  the 
palm  on  *The  same  that  drew  the  One  Hoss  Shay.'  .  .  .  We  all 

1  In  the  Harvard  Advocate,  May  26,  1876,  vol.  16,  p.  88,  is  an  account 
of  the  decennial  dinner,  on  May  11,  by  Charles  H.  Barrows,  in  which  we 
find  the  following  reference  to  this  poem:  — 

"Dr.  Holmes,  ...  to  the  surprise  and  gratification  of  all,  finished  his 
speech  by  producing  a  poem,  prepared  for  the  occasion,  which  he  read  in 
the  happiest  way,  interrupted  at  various  points  by  applause.  The  subject 
was  'The  Old  Horse,'  a  sequel  to  the  'Wonderful  One-Hoss  Shay,'  the 
leading  character  being  the  horse  instead  of  the  *shay.'  The  author's 
native  humor  was  well-sustained  throughout  his  verses,  and  one  or  two 
local  hits  were  especially  appreciated." 


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thank  the  Doctor  for  this,  and  fot  much  besides.  The  Doctor 
is  the  dear  and  ever-young  colleague  of  all  Harvard  editors. 
With  them,  perennially, 

*He  steps  a  five-year-old  again.' 
Our  founders,  the  Class  of  1867,  have  a  closer  bond  with  Dr. 
Holmes,  in  the  common  memory  of  one  whom  it  will  be  always 
of  good  cheer  to  remember." 

The  last  reference  is  to  Dr.  Holmes's  yoimger  son,  Edward 
Jackson  Holmes,  of  the  Class  of  1867,  who  died  in  1884. 

In  the  Harvard  Graduates'  Magazine  for  June,  1906,  vol.  14, 
p.  600,  Mr.  T.  T.  Baldwin  says  ("  Forty  Years  of  the  Harvard 
Advocate  ")  :  "It  is  related  that  a  few  days  after  the  dinner  two 
of  the  editors  waited  upon  the  genial  doctor  and  asked  permis- 
sion to  print  the  verses  in  the  Advocate,  to  which  request  he  re- 
plied: *  Young  gentlemen,  that  poem  might  do  to  read  before 
your  board,  but  I  hardly  think  it  worthy  a  place  in  your  columns.* 
It  appeared  two  months  later  in  the  Atlantic.'* 

Howe,  Dr.  Samuel  G. 

See  "A  Memorial  Tribute.** 

Hudson,  The.   After  a  Lecture  at  Albany  (Dec,  1854) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Humboldt's  Birthday.  Centennial  Celebration,  Sept.  14, 
1869 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "Bonaparte,  August  15, 
1769  —  Humboldt,  September  14,  1769,"  in  Atlantic  Monthly, 
Dec,  1869,  vol.  24,  pp.  637-638. 

Hymn  —  After  the  Emancipation  Proclamation 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Hjrmn  :   The  Word  of  Promise 

See  "  The  Word  of  Promise." 

Hymn  at  the  Ftmeral  Services  of  Charles  Sumner  (April 
29,  1874) 

A  Memorial  of  Charles  Sumner,  from  the  City  of  Boston, 

1874,  pp.  76-77. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875.      . 


[35] 

Hymn  [for  the  Class  Meeting]  (Written  for  the  Class,  and 
sung  at  their  meeting,  Jan.  6,  1869) 
Broadside,  8vo,  pp.  2.    Poem  on  page  1,  dated  Jan.  6,  1869, 

and  signed  O.  W.  H. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1881,  p.  124 . 

Hymn  for  the  Dedication  of  Memorial  Hall  at  Cambridge 
(June  23,  1874) 
Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  ii,  p.  54. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

There  is  in  the  archives  of  Harvard  College  a  manuscript 
record  of  the  "  Proceedings  of  the  Committee  of  Fifty  upon  the 
subject  of  a  Memorial  Hall,  appointed  July  19th,  1865."    It 
contains  the  order  of  exercises  and  the  poems. 
Hymn  for  the  Fair  at  Chicago  (1865) 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Hymn  for  the  Inauguration  of  the  Statue  of  Governor  Andrew 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

A  Memorial  Volume  containing  the  exercises  at  the  dedication 
of  the  Statue  of  John  A.  Andrew  at  Hingham,  Oct.  8, 1875 
(1878),  p.  73. 

Hymn  for  the  Laying  of  the  Comer-Stone  of  Harvard 
Memorial  Hall  (Oct.  6,  1870) 

Har\^ard  College,  services  on  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone, 

etc.,  1870. 
Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  ii,  p.  56. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Hymn  for  the  Two  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  King's  Chapel 
Programme  of  the  Commemoration  by  King's  Chapel,  Boston, 
of  the  Completion  of  Two  Hundred  Years  since  its  Founda- 
tion, on  Wednesday,  December  15,  1886. 
The  Commemoration,  etc.,  1887,  p.  60. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Hymn  of  Peace,  A  (Sung  at  the  Jubilee,  June  15,  1869,  to 
the  Music  of  Keller's  American  Hymn) 

Grand  National  Peace  Jubilee  and  Musical  Festival.    Official 

Programme  for  the  First  Day,  June  15,  1869,  p.  4. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 


[36] 

Hymn  of  Trust,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1859,  vol.  4,  pp.  633-634,  in  the 

"Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast -Table,  1859,  p.  356. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Hymn  read  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
Hospital  at  Hudson,  Wisconsin,  1887 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

The  compiler  has  been  informed  by  Dr.  I.  D.  Wiltrout,  for- 
merly of  Hudson,  the  founder  of  the  O.  W.  H.  Hospital  at 
that  place,  that  he  is  the  possessor  of  a  considerable  number  of 
letters  from  Dr.  Holmes  (preceding  and  following  the  composi- 
tion of  this  poem),  none  of  which  have  been  pubHshed.  The 
Hospital  has  ceased  to  be  called  by  its  original  name,  and  is 
now  known  as  "The  Sanatorium." 

Hymn  written  for  the  Great  Central  Fair  at  Philadelphia 
Our  Daily  Fare,^  Philadelphia,  June  8,  1864,  no.  1,  p.  7. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

"Hymn  written  for  the  Twenty-Fifth  Anniversary  of  the  Re- 
organization of  the  Boston  Young  Men's  Christian  Union, 
May  31,  1893 

Leaflet,  8vo. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

*  "  I  cannot  say  if  truth  there  be  " 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  March,  1832,  vol.  2, 
p.  227,  in  "The  Debut." 

I  cannot  say  if  truth  there  be 

In  that  fantastic  tale 
About  the  bargain  made  between 

The  toad  and  nightingale ;  — 
But  thou  —  if  thou  hast  ever  called 

One  heavenly  gift  thine  own  — 

*  A  newspaper  published  daily  during  the  Fair,  June  8-21,  1864. 


[37] 

Hast  let  it  go,  and  kept  unsold 
Thine  ugliness  alone. 

O  would  the  blazing  chandelier, 

That  lights  each  hideous  line, 
But  save  its  rays  for  eyes  that  beam 

And  cast  its  shade  on  thine! 
O  would  the  laboring  echoes  cease 

Thine  accents  to  repeat! 
Thou  wert  in  shadow  doubly  fair. 

In  silence  doubly  sweet! 

I  Like  You  and  I  Love  You 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1890,  vol.  65,  p.  703,  in  "Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  144-145. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  Idle  Boys,  The 

The  Amateur,  June  15, 1830,  no.  1,  p.  13,  in  "Annual  Exhi- 
bition of  Paintings." 

Illustration  of  a  Picture 
Poems,  1836. 

Impromptu,  An  (Read  at  the  Walcker  Dinner  on  the  com- 
pletion of  the  Great  Organ  for  Boston  Music  Hall,  1863) 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

Impromptu,  An  —  Not  Premeditated  (Written  for  the  Class 
Meeting,  Nov.  29,  1853) 
Songs  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1854,  p.  10. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

*  "  In  gentle  bosoms  tried  and  true  " 

Life  of  Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow,  by  Samuel  Longfellow, 

1886,  vol.  iii,  p.  85. 
H.  W.  L.'s  Journal,  Feb.  27,  1867.     Longfellow's  sixtieth 
birthday.    "At  supper  Holmes  read  these  lines: 

"  In  gentle  bosoms  tried  and  true 
How  oft  the  thought  will  be. 


[38] 

*  Dear  friend,  shall  I  remember  you. 
Or  you  remember  me  ? ' 

"  But  thou,  sweet  singer  of  the  West, 
Whose  song  in  every  zone 
Has  soothed  some  aching  grief  to  rest 
And  made  some  heart  thine  own, 

"  Whene'er  thy  tranquil  sun  descends,  — 
Far,  far  that  evening  be,  — 
What  mortal  tongue  may  count  the  friends 
That  shall  remember  thee  ? " 

In  Memoriam 

See  "The  Old  Man  Dreams." 

In  Memory  of  J.  D.  R. 

See  "  J[ames]  D[utton]  R[ussell]." 

In  Memory  of  Charles  Wentworth  Upham,  Junior  (1860) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

In  Memory  of  J[ohn]  W[are]  R[obert]  W[are]  (Read  at  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society, 
May  25,  1864) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1864,  vol.  14,  pp.  115-116. 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  July  7,  1864,  vol.  70, 

p.  467. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

In  Memory  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier  (Dec.  17,  1807- 
Sept.  7,  1892) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1892,  vol.  70,  pp.  648-649. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

In  Response  (Breakfast  at  the  Century  Club,  New  York, 
May,  1879) 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

In  the  Twilight 

See  "Before  the  Curfew." 


[  39  ] 

Inconnue,  L' 

"  Is  thy  name  Mary,  maiden  fair  ?  " 
[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1831,  vol.  1, 

pp.  316-320,  in  "A  Week  of  Frailty." 
The  Harbinger  (1833),  pp.  48-49. 
Poems,  1836. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  first  printed  with  the  above  title. 

*  Infelix  Senectus 

The  Amateur,  Sept.  4, 1830,  no.  6,  p.  95. 
The  Gleaner,  1830,  pp.  161-162. 

International  Ode.    Our  Father's  Land  (Sung  in  unison  by 
1200  children  of  the  public  schools,  at  the  visit  of  the 
Prince  of  Wales  to  Boston,  Oct.  18,  1860) 
The  New  England  Tour  of  his  Royal  Highness  the  Prince  of 

Wales,  etc.,  1860,  p.  19. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Invita  Minerva 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1890,  vol.  66,  p.  671,  in  "Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  p.  314. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  Invocation,  An 

The  Collegian,  May,  1830,  no.  4,  pp.  199-200. 

Iris,  her  Book 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1859,  vol.  4,  p.  500,  in  the  " Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  285-287. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Iron  Gate,  The  (Read  at  the  Breakfast  given  in  honor  of 
Dr.  Holmes's  Seventieth  Birthday  by  the  Publishers  of 
the  Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.  3,  1879) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  4-5. 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

A  ms.  copy  of  the  poem,  in  Dr.  Holmes's  hand  and  ini- 
tialed by  him,  brought  $50.00  at  the  WilHamson  Sale  in  March, 
1904. 


[40] 

Island  Hunting-Song,  The 

Poems,  1849,  2d  issue. 

Printed  under  the  title  "  Song,"  in  Verses  from  the  Island 
Book,  1865. 

"The  island  referred  to  is  a  domain  of  princely  proportions, 
which  has  long  been  the  seat  of  a  generous  hospitality.  Naushon 
is  its  old  Indian  name.  WiUiam  Swain,  Esq.,  commonly  known  as 
'the  Governor,'  was  the  proprietor  of  it  at  the  time  when  this 
song  was  written." — Note  of  Dr.  Holmes  in  Riverside  Edition. 

Island  Ruin,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

See  "The  ExUe's  Secret,"  "Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret," 
and  "Readings  over  the  Teacups." 

Japanese  Embassy,  At  the  Banquet  to  the 
See  "At  the  Banquet,"  etc. 

*  Jubilee,  The 

The  Boatswain's  Whistle  (pubhshed  at  the  National  Sailors' 

Fair),  Nov.  15,  1864,  no.  5,  p.  37. 
Humorous  Poems,  1865. 

King's  Chapel   (Read  at  the  Two  Hundredth  Anniversary) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1883,  vol.  52,  pp.  322-323. 
The  Commemoration,  etc.,  1887,  pp.  131-133. 
This  is  the  first  publication  of  this  poem  in  a  book,  although 
it  was  not  written  for  the  anniversary. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  Lady  Drinking   (The  Athenaeum  Gallery) 

The  Amateur,  June  15,  1830,  no.  1,  p.  16. 
Last  Blossom,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1858, vol.  1,  p. 877,  in  the" Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  186-187. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Last  Charge,  The  (Read  at  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  7,  1864) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1864,  vol.  13,  p.  244. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1868,  pp.  77-78. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 


[41] 

A  signed  copy  of  this  poem,  in  Dr.  Holmes's  hand,  dated 
Jan.  7,  1864,  brought  $16.00  at  auction,  in  May,  1895. 

Last  Leaf,  The 

The  Amateur,    March  26,  1831,   no.  17,  p.  261.     Signed 

O.  W.  H. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  34-36. 
The  Laurel,  1836. 
Knickerbocker,  or  New  York  Monthly  Magazine,  Feb.,  1836, 

vol.  7,  p.  219. 
In   a    review  of  The  Laurel,  where  "The  Last  Leaf"  is 
described   as   an    "oddly-pathetic    poem,  by  O.  W.  Holmes 
Esq.,  a  fine  prose-writer,  and  no  mean  poet.'* 
Poems,  1836. 

Last  Look,  The.   W.  W.  Swain 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1858,  vol.  2,  p.  749. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Verses  from  the  Island  Book,  1865. 

Written  at  Naushon  in  September,  1858.  W.  W.  Swain  was 
the  son  of  the  "  Governor  "  Swain  to  whom  an  earlier  poem  was 
addressed.     See  "  To  Governor  Swain." 

*  Last  Prophecy  of  Cassandra,  The 

The  Collegian,  March,  1830,  no.  2,  pp.  55-56. 

Poems,  1836. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Not  in  Household  or  Riverside  Edition. 

Last  Reader,  The 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  April,  1836,  n.  s.  vol.  1,  pp. 

372-373. 
Poems,  1836. 

In  the  magazine  "corroding"  was  substituted  for  "sarcastic" 
in  the  third  line  of  the  third  stanza: 

"Or  o'er  them  his  sarcastic  thread;" 
"  changed  by  the  New  York  editor  on  his  own  responsibility," 
says  Dr.  Holmes,^  "which  occasioned  immense  indignation  on 
my  part,  and  a  refusal  to  write  until  he  would  promise  to  keep 
hands  off." 

1  In  a  letter  to  J.  F.  Clarke,  of  May  11,  1836,  printed  by  Mr.  Morse  in 
his  Life  and  Letters  of  Dr.  Holmes,  vol.  ii,  p.  270. 


[42] 

Last  Survivor,  The  (Read  at  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  10,  1878) 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 
176-180. 

Latter-Day  Warnings 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1857.  vol.  1,  p.  57,  in  the  "Auto- 
crat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  26-27. 
Songs  in  ]Many  Keys,  1862. 

Lexington 

Poems,  1849,  2d  issue. 

Lincoln,  Abraham 

See  "  For  the  Services  in  Memory  of  Abraham  Lincoln.** 

Lines  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  1860)  ^ 

Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1868,  pp.  41-42. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Lines  by  a  Clerk 
Poems,  1836. 

First  appeared  in  the  Amateur  (see  below),  under  the  title, 
"Lines  by  a  Very  Literesting  Young  Man." 

Lines  by  a  Very  Literesting  Young  Man 

The  Amateur,  April  9,  1831,  no.  18,  p.  273,  signed  O.  W.  H. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  42-43. 

Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival 

The  Berkshire  Jubilee,  celebrated  atPittsfield,  Mass.,  August 

22  and  23,  1864,  pp.  162-163. 
Dr.  Holmes's  copy  of  this  volume  was  sold  by  Bangs  in  June, 
1899,  for  $4.50. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

Lines  recited  at  the  Cambridge  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Dinner 

[1844] 

Poems,  London,  1846. 

^  At  this  meeting  of  the  Class,  seven  original  poems  were  read  by 
different  members. 


[43] 

See  "Verses  for  After-Dinner." 

Dr.  John  Pierce  wrote  in  his  diary,  concerning  this  meeting 
of  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa:  "One  of  tibe  most  humorous  of  the 
jeus  [sic]  d'esprit  was  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  O.  W.  Hohnes." 
(Proceedings  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  2d  series,  vol.  9,  p.  137.) 

Lines  written  at  Sea 

See  Appendix,  p.  309,  infra. 

Living  Temple,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  882-883,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  202-203. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Longfellow,  Henry  Wadsworth 

See    "  In    gentle    bosoms,   tried    and    true,"    "  Our   Dead 
Singer,"  and  "To  H.  W.  LongfeUow." 

*  Lost  Boy,  The 

The  Token,  1831,  pp.  27-28. 

How  sweet  to  boyhood's  glowing  pulse 

The  sleep  that  languid  summer  yields. 
In  the  still  bosom  of  the  wild. 
Or  in  the  flowery  fields! 

So  art  thou  slumbering,  lonely  boy  — 

But  ah!  how  Kttle  deemest  thou 
The  hungry  felon  of  the  wood 

Is  glaring  on  thee  now! 

He  crept  along  the  tangled  glen. 

He  panted  up  the  rocky  steep. 
He  stands  and  howls  above  thy  head. 

And  thou  art  still  asleep! 

No  trouble  mars  thy  peaceful  dream; 

And  though  the  arrow,  winged  with  death, 
Goes  glancing  near  thy  thoughtless  heart. 

Thou  heedest  not  its  breath. 

Sleep  on!  the  danger  all  is  past. 
The  watch-dog,  roused,  defends  thy  breast. 

And  well  the  savage  prowler  knows 
He  may  not  break  thy  rest! 


[44] 
-» 

Lover's  Secret,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891,  in  "Readings  over  the  Tea- 
cups. *' 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Originally  printed  under  the  title  "The  Mysterious  Illness," 
as  one  of  the  group,  Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  in  Songs 
in  Many  Keys,  1862,  and  still  so  printed  in  the  Household 
Edition.    See  "  Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Loving-Cup  Song,  A  (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  4, 

1883) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1883,  vol.  51,  pp.  349-350. 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  211-212. 

Lowell,  James  Russell,  1819-1891 
Leaflet,  8vo. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1891,  vol.  68,  pp.  552-553. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891.^ 

A  copy  of  the  leaflet,  with  Dr.  Holmes's  autograph,  brought 
$8.00  at  the  William  Harris  Arnold  Sale  in  1901. 

«  Lucy."  For  her  Golden  Wedding,  Oct.  18,  1875 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Ljrre  of  Anacreon,  The    (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8, 
1885) 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  217-219. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "The  Old  Song,"  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1885,  vol.  55,  pp.  533-534,  m  "  The 
New  Portfolio"  ["A  Mortal  Antipathy"]. 

Maison  d*Or,  La  (Bar  Harbor) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1890,  vol.  65,  p.  703,  in  "  Over  the 

Teacups. " 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  p.  172. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

^  For  other  poems  concerning  IVIr,  Lowell,  or  addressed  to  him,  see  "At 
a  Birthday  Festival,"  "A  Farewell  to  J.  R.  LoweU,"  "To  J.  R.  LoweU," 
"  To  J.  R.  L.."  "To  James  RusseU  Lowell." 


[45] 

Mare  Rubrum  (Written  for  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Class 
[Jan.  14],  1858) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  624-625,  in  the 
"Autocrat." 

Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  140-142. 

Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1859,  pp.  22-24. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

The  poem  as  copied  in  the  records  of  the  Class  bears  no  title. 
The  following  changes  were  made  in  the  text  before  it  was 
printed  in  the  Atlantic.  In  stanza  6,  line  5,  wondrous  was 
changed  to  maddening  ;  ^  and  in  stanza  7,  line  5,  tasteless  to 


Martha.    Died  Jan.  7,  1861 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  Centennial  Dinner  of  the 
See  "  Poem  for  the  Centennial  Dinner,"  etc. 

Meeting  of  the  Alumni  of  Harvard  College,  1857 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Meeting  of  the  Dryads,  The 

The  Collegian,  June,  1830,  no.  5,  pp.  221-223. 
Poems,  1836. 

Written  after  a  general  pruning  of  the  trees  around  Harvard 
College. 

Memorial  Hall,  Cambridge 

See  "Hymn  for  the  Laying  of  the  Corner-Stone  "  and  "Hymn 
for  the  Dedication  of  Memorial  Hall." 

Memorial  Tribute,  A  (Read  at  the  meeting,  Feb.  8,  1876, 
in  memory  of  Dr.  Samuel  G.  Howe) 
The  Massachusetts  Philanthropist.    Memoir  of  Dr.  Samuel 

Gridley  Howe,  etc.,  1876,  pp.  89-91. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1876,  vol.  37,  pp.  464-460. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

*  Wondrous  was  afterward  restored  and  is  now  the  usual  reading,  except 
in  the  "  Autocrat." 


[46] 

M[eriam],   Hforatio]   C[ook],   H[oward]   S[argent],  J[osiah] 
K[endall]  W[aite]  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  9, 
1873) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

153-155. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  printed  with  no  other  title  than 
"lines." 

Midstimmer 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1859,  vol.  4,  pp.  378-379,  in  the 

"Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  284-285. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Mind's  Diet,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  to  "  Spring." 

Modest  Request,  A.  Complied  with  after  the  dinner  at 
President  Everett's  Inauguration  [1846] 

Poems,  1849. 

Dr.  Holmes's  "  humorous  poem  "  at  this  dinner  is  mentioned 
but  not  printed  in  Addresses  at  the  Inauguration  of  the  Hon. 
Edward  Everett,  LL.D.,  as  President  of  the  University  at  Cam- 
bridge, Thursday,  April  30,  1846,  Appendix,  p.  61.  The  records 
of  the  Class  of  *29  contain  a  newspaper  print  of  the  poem,  cut 
from  the  Boston  Daily  Advertiser. 

*  Moonshine 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  p.  277. 
The  Harbinger  (1833),  pp.  59-60. 

Moral  Bully,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  to  "Spring." 

Morning  Visit,  The  ^ 

The  Boston  Book,  1850,  pp.  89-92. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  See  Memoir  of  Dr.  James  Jackson,  by  James  Jackson  Putnam,  1905, 
pp.  164-166. 


[  47  ] 

Mother's  Secret,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  185P,  vol.  3,  pp.  619-620,  in  the 

"  Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  pp.  159-163. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Mother's  Secret,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Originally  printed,  under  the  title  "  A  Mother's  Secret,"  as 
above,  and  still  so  printed  in  the  Household  Edition.  See  "  Each 
Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Motley,  J.  L.,  A  Parting  Health  to 

See  "A  Parting  Health  to  J.  L.  Motley." 
Musa 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  369-370,  in  the 
"Autocrat." 

Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  290-292. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Music-Grinders,  The 

Poems,  1836. 

Printed  imder  the  title  "Banditti"  in  the  New  England 
Galaxy,  1830,  and  in  the  Gleaner  of  the  same  date.  The 
editor  of  the  Cambridge  Edition  gives  1836  as  the  conjectural 
date  of  composition.  The  second  Kne  of  stanza  4  originally 
read  "Some  jilthy  creature  begs;"  in  the  Household  Edition, 
■pithy  was  changed  to  odious. 

My  Annual.    For  the  "  Boys  of  '29  "  (At  Annual  Meeting, 
Jan.  4,  1866) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1866,  vol.  17,  pp.  395-396. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1868,  pp.  84-86. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

My  Aimt 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1831,  vol.  1, 

p.  433. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  44-46. 
Poems,  1836. 


[48] 

My  Aviary  ^ 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1878,  vol.  41,  pp.  122-125. 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

Mysterious  Illness,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

See    "The   Lover's    Secret,"    "Each    Heart   has   its    own 
Secret,"  and  "Readings  over  the  Teacups." 

Mysterious  Visitor,  The 

The  Collegian,  June,  1830,  no.  5,  pp.  212-214. 
Poems,  1836. 

In  the  last-named  volume  the  last  word  of  the  title  is  spelled 
visiter. 

Nearing  the  Snow-Line 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1870,  vol.  25,  p.  86. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Never  or  Now!   An  Appeal 

Lyrics  of  Loyalty,  1864,  pp.  241-242. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

New  Eden,  The  (Read  before  the  Berkshire  Horticul- 
tural Society  at  Stockbridge,  Sept.  13,  1854) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
The  Poet  among  the  HiUs  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  146-150. 

New  England  Society  in  New  York,  the,  Semi-Centennial 
Celebration  of 
See  "  Semi-Centennial  Celebration,"  etc. 

New  York  Mercantile  Library  Association,  Annual  Dinner  of 
See  "Song,  written  for  the  Annual  Dinner,"  etc. 

No  Time  Uke  the  Old  Time 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1865,  vol.  16,  pp.  398-399. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Non-Resistance 

Songs  ^1  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  to  "Spring." 


t  49  ] 

Noontide  Ljrric,  A 
Poems,  1836. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "Poultry,"  in  the  Ama- 
teur, July  3,  1830,  no.  2,  p.  25. 

Nux  Postcoenatica 
Poems,  1849. 

*  Octosyllabics 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  pp.  261-263. 

Ode  for  a  Social  Meeting   [with  Slight  Alterations  by  a 
Teetotaler] 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1857,  vol.  l,p.  184,  in  the  "  Autocrat. " 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  p.  53. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
In  last-named  volume  first  printed  with  title. 
Ode  for  Washington's  Birthday  (Mercantile  Library  Asso- 
ciation, Feb.  22,  1856) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Old  Cambridge 

Proceedings,  July  3,  1875,  in  celebration  of  the  Centennial 
Anniversary  of  Washington's  taking  Command  of  the  Con- 
tinental Army  on  Cambridge  Common,  1875,  pp.  88-91.* 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1875,  vol.  36,  pp.  237-239. 

Laurel  Leaves,  1876  [c.  1875],  pp.  167-175. 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Old  Cruiser,  The  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 1869) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

^  This  poem  was  read  at  the  dinner  in  Memorial  Hall,  following  the 
formal  exercises,  at  which  Mr.  Lowell  read  his  "Under  the  Old  Elm." 
When  Mr.  Lowell  was  called  upon  to  respond  to  the  toast,  "The  Poet 
of  the  Day,"  he  introduced  Dr.  Holmes,  to  "respond  to  the  spirit  of  the 
toast."  Dr.  H.  prefaced  the  reading  of  the  poem  with  the  following  remarks : 

"Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  —  I  know  you  will  not  accuse  me  of  hghtly  or 
wantonly  taking  the  compliment  to  myself,  when  you  have  sat  to-day  and 
listened  to  my  friend's  inspiring  poem;  and  I  should  hesitate  to  read  the 
few  verses  I  have  here,  were  it  not  that  one  was  before  and  the  other  after 
dinner.  I  have  addressed  the  gray  heads  and  bald  heads  of  this  assembly 
more  particularly,  asking  if  they  can  tell  where  some  of  the  old  familiar 
places  in  this  immediate  vicinity  are." 


[  50  ] 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of'the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 
125-128. 

The  last  four  stanzas  "were  added  and  the  completed  lines 
read  at  the  dinner  of  the  Alumni,  Conmiencement  Day,  June 
29,  1869." 

In  the  class  publication,  the  title  is  "Lines,"  simply. 

*  Old  Gentleman's  Story,  The 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  pp.  277-279. 
Old  Ironsides 

Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  Sept.  16,  1830. 

"  One  genuine  lyric  outburst,  done  in  this  year  of  the  law,  almost 
made  him  in  a  way  actually  famous.  The  frigate  Constitution, 
historic  indeed,  but  old  and  unseaworthy,  then  lying  in  the  navy 
yard  at  Charlestown,  was  condemned  by  the  Navy  Department 
to  be  destroyed.  Holmes  read  this  in  a  newspaper  paragraph, 
and  it  stirred  him.  On  a  scrap  of  paper,  with  a  lead  pencil,  he 
rapidly  shaped  the  impetuous  stanzas  of  'Old  Ironsides,'  and 
sent  them  to  the  Daily  Advertiser,  of  Boston.  Fast  and  far  they 
travelled  through  the  newspaper  press  of  the  country;  they  were 
even  printed  in  hand-bills  and  circulated  about  the  streets  of 
Washington.  An  occurrence,  which  otherwise  would  probably 
have  passed  unnoticed,  now  stirred  a  national  indignation.  The 
astonished  Secretary  made  haste  to  retrace  a  step  which  he  had 
taken  quite  innocently  in  the  way  of  business.  The  Constitution's 
tattered  ensign  was  not  torn  down.  The  ringing  spirited  verses 
gave  the  gallant  ship  a  reprieve,  which  satisfied  sentimentaUty, 
and  a  large  part  of  the  people  of  the  United  States  had  heard  of 
O.  W.  Holmes,  law  student  at  Cambridge,  who  had  only  come 
of  age  a  month  ago."  —  Life  and  Letters  of  O.  W.  Holmes,  by 
J.  T.  Morse,  Jr.,  vol.  i,  pp.  79-80.* 

Poems,  1836,  pp.  24-25. 

Here  printed  as  a  part  of  "  Poetry :  a  Metrical  Essay,"  without 

^  Curiously  enough,  while  this  compilation  was  in  the  making,  a  similar 
suggestion  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  (1905),  with  reference  to  the  same 
venerable  and  venerated  vessel,  inspired  a  like  outburst  of  popular  feeling; 
the  matter  was  made  the  subject  of  discussion  in  Congress,  and  Dr.  Holmes's 
lines  were  recited  dramatically  on  the  floor  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
by  ISir.  Sulzer  of  New  York.  See  Congressional  Record,  Fifty-Ninth 
Congress,  1st  Session,  p.  578.  See  also  the  remarks  of  ISlr.  McCall  of  Massa- 
chusetts, ibid.  p.  1226. 


[51] 

separate  title;  in  the  Contents,  however,  the  above  title  appears 
as  a  sub-title  under  "Poetry,"  which  see. 

The  Boston  Book,  1837,  p.  239. 

The  poem  was  first  printed  separately,  under  its  present  title, 
in  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition  of  the  Poems,  in  1862. 

A  copy  of  "Old  Ironsides,"  in  Dr.  Holmes's  autograph, 
signed  by  him,  and  dated  1842,  was  sold  by  Bangs  in  Nov., 
1900,  for  $45.00;  another,  1  page,  4to,  signed,  with  portrait,  for 
$37.00,  in  the  Kennard  Sale,  April,  1904 ;  and  an  autograph 
letter,  including  a  copy  of  the  poem,  for  $29.00,  in  the  Carson 
Sale,  1904. 

Old  Man  Dreams,  The 

Atlantic   Monthly,  Jan.,  1858,  vol.   1,  pp.  319-320,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  76-77. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1859,  pp.  14-16. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

This  poem  was  written  for  and  read  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Class  of  1829,  on  Nov.  23,  1854.  The  secretary  of  the  Class, 
upon  spreading  it  on  his  records,  entitled  it  "  In  Memoriam; "  but 
in  the  Songs  of  the  Class  of  '29,  it  is  called  "  The  Dream."  There 
are  several  variations  between  the  manuscript  copy  in  the  Class 
records  and  the  poem  as  printed: 

Stanza  2, hue  4,  ms.,  has  glories  for  trophies  ;  stanza  4,  line  2, 
smiling  calmly  for  calmly  smiling  ;  stanza  6  reads  in  the  ms. : 
"Nay — since  you  call  it  to  my  mind, 
One  thing  in  manhood's  life 
I  should  not  care  to  leave  behind, 
I  think  I'll  take  —  my  wife. " 
Stanza  7,  line  3,  ms.,  has  youth  for  hoy  ;  stanza  8,  line  1,  ms., 
has  still  for  yet ;  hne  3,  ms.,  has  thy  past  has^  for  these  gifts  have  ; 
last  stanza  reads  in  the  ms. : 

"And  so  I  laughed,  and,  laughing,  woke 
From  dreams  of  fancied  joys; 
And  came  to  tell  the  Angel's  joke 
Among  us  gray-haired  boys." 

Old  Man  of  the  Sea,  The.  A  Nightmare  Dream  by  Daylight 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  743-744,  in  "A  Visit 
to  the  Autocrat's  Landlady." 


[52] 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

The  original  ms.  of  the  "  Visit, "  including  the  poem,  22  pp. 
4to,  brought  $195.00  at  the  Williamson  Sale,  in  March,  1904; 
at  the  same  sale,  2  leaves,  containing  the  first  draft  of  the  poem, 
beginning  with  the  2d  stanza,  signed,  brought  $41.50. 

Old  Player,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

See  "  Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Old  Song,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1885,  vol.  55,  pp.  533-534,  in  "The 

New  Portfoho!" 
A  Mortal  Antipathy;    First  Opening  of  the  New  PortfoKo, 

1885,  pp.  85-86. ' 
Read  to  the  Class  of  1829,  Jan.  8,  1885,  and  printed  in 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888,  and  all  subsequent 
collected  editions,  under  the  title,  "The  Lyre  of  Anacreon." 

Old  Tune,  The.   Thirty-Sixth  Variation  (Read  at  the  Class 
Meeting,  Jan.  7,  1886.) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1886,  vol.  57,  p.  373,  in  "Two 
'Occasional'  Poems  with   an   Introduction"    (The   New 
PortfoKo). 
Before  the  Cm^ew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
Latest  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1890,  pp.  219-220. 

Old- Year  Song,  An 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1874,  vol.  33,  pp.  101-102. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  Hospital  at  Hudson,  Wisconsin, 
Hymn  read  at  the  Dedication  of 
See  "Hymn  read  at  the  Dedication  of,"  etc. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl 

Poems,  1849. 

On  the  Death  of  President  Garfield 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Originally  appeared  under  the  title  "After  the  Burial,"  in 
the  Boston  Globe,  Garfield  Memorial  Number,  Sept.  17, 
1881. 


[53] 

On  the  Threshold 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

Once    More.       Condiscipulis,    Cooetaneis,    Harvardianis, 
Amicis   (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.,  1868) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1868,  vol.  21,  pp.  430-431. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  96-99. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

One  Country  (1865) 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
One-Hoss  Shay,  The 

See  "The  Deacon's  Masterpiece." 
Only  Daughter,  The 

The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1838,  pp.  33-36. 
The  Token,  or  Affection's  Gift,  1846,  pp.  33-36. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

This  poem  was  omitted  —  accidentally,  it  would  seem  — 
from  the  first  issue  of  the  Poems  of  1849  (that  which  bears  the 
imprint  of  W.  D.  Ticknor  and  Co.),  but  was  printed  in  the 
second  issue  (Ticknor,  Reed  and  Fields).  See  the  description 
of  that  edition  of  the  poems,  p.  128,  infra. 

Opening  of  the  Piano,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1859,  vol.  3,  pp.  360-361,  in  the 

"Professor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  92-93. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Opening  the  Window 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875,  pp.  iii-iv. 
Organ-Blower,  The 

Old  and  New,  Jan.,  1872,  vol.  5,  pp.  69-70. 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Our  Banker  (Written  for  the  Class,  Jan.  8, 1874) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

156-158. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  printed  with  no  other  title  than 
"lines." 


[54] 

Our  Classmate,  F[rederick]  WpUiam]  C[rocker]   (Written 
for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  7,  1864) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1864,  vol.  13,  pp.  329-330. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  73-75. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Our  Dead  Singer.    H.  W.  L. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1882,  vol.  49,  pp.  721-722. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Our  First  Citizen  [Edward  Everett]  (Read  at  the  Meeting 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Jan.  30,  1865) 

Proceedings  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  Jan.  30,  1865,  vol.  8,  p. 

151. 
Tribute  of  the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  to  the  Memory  of  Edward 

Everett,  1865,  pp.  65-67. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1865,  vol.  15,  pp.  462^63. 
Memorial  of  Edward  Everett,  from  the  City  of  Boston,  1865, 

pp.  189-191. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Our  Home  —  Our  Coimtry 

Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

Printed  under  the  title  "  Home,"  in  Exercises  in  Celebrat- 
ing the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of  the  Settle- 
ment of  Cambridge,  1880. 

Our  Indian    Summer    (Written    for  the    Class   Meeting, 
Nov.,  1856) 

Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1859,  pp.  20-21. 

The  title  here  is  "A  Poem,"  simply.  Printed  in  Songs  in 
Many  Keys,  1862,  under  the  title  "Class  of  '29  (Nov.  6,  1856)." 
"Our  Indian  Summer"  was  first  used  as  title  in  Poems,  House- 
hold Edition,  1877. 

According  to  the  Class  records  Dr.  Holmes  read  at  this  same 
meeting  of  1856  "a  portion  of  an  epic"  on  the  Class,  of 
which  no  trace  remains.  • 

Otu-  Limitations 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
See  note  to  "Spring." 


[55] 

Our  Oldest  Friend  (Read  to  "The  Boys  of  '29,"  Jan.  5, 
1865) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1865,  vol.  15,  pp.  340-341. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  80-82. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Our  Sweet  Singer.  J[oseph]  A[ngier]  (Written  for  the  Class 
Meeting,  Jan.  4,  1872) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1872,  vol.  29,  p.  496,  in  the  "Poet." 
Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  134-135. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

142-144. 
In  this  latter  compilation  the  poem  is  printed  as  in  the  copy 
spread  on  the  Class  records.  But  as  printed  in  the  "Poet,"  and 
in  the  collected  editions,  it  shows  the  following  variations  from 
its  original  form:  the  3d  and  9th  stanzas  are  omitted,  and  that 
which  stands  6th  in  the  revised  form  —  "The  cheering  smile, 
the  voice  of  mirth,"  etc.  —  does  not  appear  in  the  ms.  In  the 
5th  stanza  the  ms.  has  second  childhood's  instead  of  love  and 
friendship's. 

The  3d  stanza  in  the  ms.  reads: 

"Clear  as  the  lark  at  morning's  blush 
It  filled  the  springtide  bowers; 
Sweet  as  the  vesper-trilling  thrush 
It  charmed  the  autumn  hours." 
And  the  9th: 

"And  if,  in  some  great  anthem's  pause. 
That  voice  should  once  begin  — 
May  Heaven  forgive  its  slighted  laws! 
The  Boys  would  all  strike  in!" 

Our  Yankee  Girls 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  March,  1836,  n.  s.  vol.  1,  p.  292. 

Poems,  1836. 

Boston  Book,  1837,  pp.  117-118. 

"  Our  Yankee  Giris  "  was  set  to  music;  a  copy  in  sheet  music 
form,  pubhshed  in  1852,  was  sold  at  the  Pyser  Sale,  1906,  for 
$3.10;  and  a  copy  in  the  same  form,  under  the  title  "God  Bless 
our  Yankee  Girls,"  with  music  by  T.  Comer  (1854),  brought 
$8.00  at  Bangs's  in  April,  1900. 


,[56] 

Papyrus  Club,  At  the 

See  "At  the  Papyrus  Club." 

Parkman,  Francis.  Sept.  16,  1823-Nov.  3,  1893 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Nov.  21, 

1893,  2d  series,  vol.  8,  pp.  360-361. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1894,  vol.  73,  pp.  222-223? 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

Parson  Turell's  Legacy:  or  The  President's  Old  Arm-Chair. 
A  Mathematical  Story 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  626-628,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  345-349. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Parting  Health  to  J.  L.  Motley,  A.  On  his  return  to 
England  after  the  publication  of  the  Rise  of  the  Dutch 
Republic 

Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  28-29.^ 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

This  poem  was  read  at  a  farewell  dinner  to  Motley,  Aug.  7, 
1857.  See  Longfellow's  Journal  of  that  date  in  S.  Longfellow's 
Life  of  H.  W.  L. 

Parting  Hymn 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1861,  vol.  8,  p.  235. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Parting  Song,  The  (1857)    (At  the  Meeting  of  the  Alumni 
of  Harvard  College) 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Parting  Word,  The 

Western  Messenger,  May,  1838. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

Peabody,  George 

See  "To  George  Peabody." 

^  Not  included  in  the  "Autocrat"  when  that  work  appeared  in  the 
Atlantic  Monthly. 


[57] 

Peau  de  Chagrin  of  State  Street,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1890,  vol.  65,  p.  403,  in" Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  73-74. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Peirce, Benjamin:  Astronomer, Mathematician.  1809-1880 ' 
(Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1881) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1880,  vol.  46,  pp.  823-824. 
Benjamin  Peirce.    A  Memorial  Collection,  1881,  pp.  63-64. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

196-197. 
Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  Harvard 

See  "An  After-Dinner  Poem,"  "Chanson  without  Music," 
"A  Poem  Served  to  Order, "  "Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay,"  "Post- 
Prandial,"  "Terpsichore,"  "To  the  Poets  who  only  Read  and 
Listen,"  "Verses  for  After-Dinner." 

Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  Yale 

See  "Astraea." 
Philosopher  to  his  Love,  The 

The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1833,  pp.  310-311. 

Poems,  1836. 

Pilgrim's  Vision,  The 

C.  J.  Fox's  History  of  the  Old  Township  of  Dunstable,  etc. 
(Nashua),  1846,  pp.  51-54. 

W.  S.  Russell's  Guide  to  Plymouth  and  Recollections  of  the 
Pilgrims,  1846,  supp.  pp.  73-74. 

Poems,  1849. 

The  diary  of  Dr.  John  Pierce  has  the  following  entry  concern- 
ing the  anniversary  celebration  of  the  Landing  of  the  Forefathers 
at  Plymouth,  Dec.  22, 1845:  "Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  next 
read  a  beautiful  poetical  effusion  suited  to  the  occasion."  Dr. 
Pierce  copied  "The  Pilgrim's  Vision"  in  full  into  his  diary. 
(Proceedings  of  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  2d  series,  vol.  10,  pp.  399-400.) 

Pittsfield  Cemetery,  Dedication  of 
See  "Poem  for  the  Dedication,"  etc. 
^  Printed  in  first  impression  of  Riverside  Edition,  vol.  xii,  "  1S09-1890." 


[58] 

Ploughman,  The  (Anniversary  of  the  Berkshire  Agricul- 
tural Society,  Oct.  4,  1849) 

Poems,  London,  1852. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  132-133. 

In  the  last-named  volume  the  poem  is  said  to  be  given  as 
originally  deUvered,  and  the  title  is  spelled  "Plowman."  The 
following  variations  from  the  text  of  the  poem  as  now  printed 
may  be  noted.    The  last  two  Hnes  of  the  3d  stanza  read: 

"There  are  the  lines,  oh,  Heaven-commanded  toil. 
That  fill  thy  deed  —  the  charter  of  the  soil !  " 
Line  12  of  the  4th  stanza: 

"Round  the  fresh  clasp  of  thine  embracing  arms." 
Lines  3-6  of  the  last  stanza: 

"  By  yon  twin  crests,  amid  the  sinking  sphere. 
Last  to  dissolve  and  first  to  reappear. 
By  these  fair  plains  the  mountain  circle  screens, 
And  feeds  in  silence  from  its  dark  ravines." 
And  the  last  two  Hnes  of  the  poem: 

"Till  Greylock  thunders  to  the  setting  sun. 
The  sword  has  rescued  what  the  ploughshare  won." 

Poem  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Halleck  Monument  (July 
8,  1869) 
8vo  leaflet,  pp.  4;   third  and  fourth  pages  blank. 
A  copy  of  the  leaflet,  with  Dr.  Holmes's  autograph,  brought 
$25.00  at  the  William  Harris  Arnold  Sale  in  1901. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

A  description  of  the  Dedication  of  the  Monument,  erected  at 
Guildford,  Conn.,  in  honor  of  Fitz-Greene  Halleck  (pri- 
vately printed),  1869.    See  Appendix,  p.  309,  injra. 

Poem  for   the   Centennial   Dinner   of   the   Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  June  8,  1881 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  23, 1881,  vol.  104, 

pp.  577-580. 
Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

The  original  ms.  of  this  poem  is  owned  by  the  Massachu- 
setts Medical  Library  Association. 


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Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  the  Fountain  at  Stratford-on- 
Avon  (1887) 

Story  of  the  Memorial  Fountain  to  Shakespeare  at  Stratford- 
upon-Avon,  given  by  George  W.  Childs,  L.  Clarke  Davis, 
editor  (privately  printed),  1890,  pp.  41-44.* 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

As  originally  published  in  the  newspapers,  "Blandusia"  was 
printed  instead  of  "Bandusia,"  in  line  4  of  the  2d  stanza.  See 
"After  Our  Hundred  Days,"  Atlantic  Monthly,  vol.  61,  p.  129. 

Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  the  Pittsfield  Ceme- 
tery, A 

An  Address  by  Rev.  Henry  Neill  and  a  Poem  by  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  etc.,  1850,  pp.  55-60. 

A  copy  of  this  pamphlet  was  sold  by  Bangs,  in  April,  1897,  for 
$5.00. 

Poems,  London,  1852. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Printed  under  the  title  "Woodlawn  Cemetery"  in  Memory 
and  Hope,  Marian  C.  D.  Silsbee,  editor,  1851. 

Poem  for  the  Meeting  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  A 

Response  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.,  to  the  following 
toast,  proposed  at  the  Entertainment  given  to  the  American 
Medical  Association,  by  the  Physicians  of  the  City  of  New 
York,  at  MetropoKtan  Hall,  on  the  5th  of  May,  1853. 
Toast.  —  "The  Union  of  Science  and  Literature  —  a 
happy  marriage,  the  fruits  of  which  are  nowhere  seen  to 
better  advantage  than  in  our  American  Holmes.**  —  Broad- 
side, large  foho,  1  page. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

*  On  page  22  is  the  following  letter: 
Dear  Me.  Childs: 

I  have  written  a  poem  for  the  celebration  of  the  opening  of  the  foun- 
tain. There  are  nine  verses,  each  of  nine  lines,  as  it  now  stands.  I  mean 
to  revise  it  carefully,  transcribe  it,  and  send  you  the  copy  in  the  course  of 
the  week. 

I  have  taken  pains  with  it,  and  I  hope  you  will  like  it.  Please  do  not 
take  the  trouble  of  replying  before  you  get  the  poem. 

Always  truly  yours, 

O.  W.  Holmes. 


[60] 

Poem  for  the  Two  Hundred  and' Fiftieth  Anniversary  of 
Harvard  College 

Record  of  the  Commemoration,  November  fifth  to  eighth, 

1886,  etc.  (1887),  pp.  237-249. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1886,  vol.  58,  supp.  pp.  18-28. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Poem  read  at  the  Dinner  given  to  the  Author  by  the 
Medical  Profession  of  the  City  of  New  York 
Proceedings  at  the  Dinner,  etc.,  April  12,  1883,  Wesley  M. 

Carpenter,  editor,  1883,  pp.  16-23. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

A  head-note  to  the  group  Medical  Poems,  in  the  Cambridge 
Edition,  states  that  this  poem  was  accidentally  omitted  from 
the  Riverside  Edition. 

Poem  Served  to  Order,  A   ($.  B.  K.,  June  26,  1873) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1873,  vol.  32,  pp.  296-297. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Poet  to  the  Readers,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1862,  vol.  10,  pp.  118-119. 
Poems,  Blue  and  Gold  Edition,  1862. 

Printed  in  this  and  all  subsequent  collected  editions,  as  a 
Prelude,  under  the  title,  "To  my  Readers."  ^ 

Poet's  Lot,  The 
Poems,  1836. 

First  appeared  in  [Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine, 
vol.  1,  p.  239,  under  the  title,  "Thoughts  in  Dejection." 

*  Poet's  Reply,  The  (To  a  request  to  contribute  to  Our 
Daily  Fare) 
Our  DaUy  Fare,  Philadelphia,  June  9, 1864,  no.  2,  p.  13. 
Why  in  these  breathless  sleepless  times. 

When  every  hour  is  like  an  age. 
Should  poets  pair  the  rusted  rhymes 

That  cUmb  in  every  school-boy's  page  ? 
Are  these  the  days  for  idle  songs  ? 

Are  these  the  nights  to  doze  and  dream. 


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When  all  our  fiery  manhood  throngs 
A  perilled  nation  to  redeem  ? 

Yet  blame  not  him  whose  slender  tone 

Blends  with  the  stirring  battle-call; 
'T  was  but  a  crooked  ram's  horn  blown,  — 

Down  crushed  the  Godless  heathen's  wall! 
A  word  of  cheer  may  nerve  the  blow 

That  turns  the  conflict's  trembling  scale. 
And  he  that  never  saw  his  foe 

May  pierce  him  through  his  triple  mail. 

Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay  (Read  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Society,  Harvard  University,  Aug.,  1836) 

Poems,  1836,  pp.  3-39. 

Dr.  John  Pierce,  of  the  Harvard  Class  of  1793,  for  many  years 
a  regular  attendant  at  Commencement  and  at  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
meetings,  left  a  diary  from  which  copious  extracts  have  been 
published  from  time  to  time  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Historical  Society.  He  had  this  to  say  of  the  meeting  of 
1836:  "After  a  suitable  interlude  by  the  band,  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  M.  D.,  of  the  class  of  1829,  deKvered  a  beautiful  poem 
of  1  hour  and  10  minutes,  committed  to  memory,  and  uttered  with 
charming  ease  and  propriety.  It  was  exceedingly  miscellaneous. 
In  it  he  paid  a  feeling  tribute  to  this  as  the  place  of  his  nativity, 
to  soji^e  of  the  most  striking  objects  in  his  vicinity,  and  to  his 
sister,  who  in  the  bloom  and  beauty  of  youth  was  consigned  to 
the  adjoining  cemetery.  He  took  an  affectionate  notice  of  Dr. 
James  Jackson,  Jr.,^  with  whom  he  had  studied  in  Paris, 
and  whose  early  death  he  deeply  deplored.  He  was  often  inter- 
rupted by  the  spontaneous  and  long  continued  applauses  of  the 
Society  and  of  the  audience  in  general."  (Mass.  Hist.  Soc. 
Proceedings,  2d  series,  vol.  9,  p.  127.)  See  "  Lines  recited  at 
the  Cambridge  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Dinner  "  and  "  The  Pilgrim's 
Vision." 

"A  few  lines,  perhaps  deficient  in  dignity,"  have  been,  from 
the  beginning,  omitted  from  the  poem  as  pubhshed,  but  printed 
among  the  "notes." 

^  See  Dr.  Holmes's  letter  from  Paris  to  Dr.  James  Jackson,  Senior,  in 
Dr.  James  Jackson  Putnam's  Memoir  of  Dr.  James  Jackson,  1905,  pp. 
314-316. 


[62] 

Poetry  of  Real  Life 
See  "The  FUes." 

Portrait,  A 

The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1833,  p.  337. 
Poems,  1836. 

*  Portrait  of  a  Lady  (The  Athenaeum  Gallery) 
"Lady!  I  may  not  see  thy  face.*' 
The  Amateur,  June  15,  1830,  no.  1,  p.  16. 

Post-Prandial  (Phi  Beta  Kappa,  1881) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1881,  vol.  48,  p.  365. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

The  orator  of  the  day  was  Wendell  Phillips  and  the  poet 
Charles  Godfrey  Leland  (Hans  Breitmann).  An  interesting 
letter  from  Dr.  Hohnes  to  Mr.  Leland  on  the  subject  of  the 
latter's  poem  and  the  reception  accorded  it,  may  be  found  in 
Mrs.  E.  R.  Pennell's  Charles  Godfrey  Leland,  1906,  vol.  ii, 
pp.  116-118. 

Poultry  (The  Athenaeum  Gallery) 

The  Amateur,  July  3,  1830,  no.  2,  p.  25. 
See  "A  Noontide  Lyric." 

[Prelude] 

"I'm  the  fellah  that  tole  one  day." 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1858,  vol.  2,  p.  625,  in  the  "Autocrat." 

Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  p.  344. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

This  introduction  to  "  Parson  Turell's  Legacy,"  alone  of 
all  the  poems  in  the  "Autocrat,"  was  never  printed  in  any 
collection  of  poems  prior  to  the  Cambridge  Edition. 

Prelude  to  a  Volume  printed  in  Raised  Letters  for  the  Blind 

Selections  from  the  Poetical  Works  of  Dr.  OKver  Wendell 

Holmes,  in  raised  letters,  Howe  Memorial  Press,  Boston, 

1885,  p.  V. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Prelude  to  Verses  from  the  Island  Book 
See  p.  208,  infra. 


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President's  Old  Arm-Chair,  The 

See  "Parson  Turell's  Legacy." 
Programme 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875,  pp.  iv-vii,  dated  Oct.  7,  1874. 

[Prologue] 

"A  prologue  ?  Well,  of  course  the  ladies  know." 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1857,  vol.  1,  pp.   182-183,  in  the 

"Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  49-52. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

In  last-named  volume  first  printed  with  title.  A  portion  of 
this  poem  was  printed  by  Mr.  R.  W.  Emerson  in  his  "Parnas- 
sus" (Boston,  1874),  under  the  title,  "Rudolph  the  Headsman." 

[Prologue] 

"  The  piping  of  our  slender,  peaceful  reeds." 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862,  p.  v. 

Here,  and  in  all  collected  editions  previous  to  the  Riverside, 
1891,  printed  as  a  prologue  to  Songs  in  Many  Keys,  but  without 
separate  title. 

Promise,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Questions  and  Answers 

Poems  of  1849,  2d  issue. 

Songs  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1854,  pp.  10-11. 

In  his  Life  and  Letters  of  Ohver  Wendell  Holmes,  Mr.  Morse 
quotes  letters  of  Rev.  Samuel  May,  Secretary  of  the  Class  of 
1829,  to  Dr.  Holmes,  as  follows:  "You  regularly  began  to 
furnish  us  a  poem  in  1851,  —  *The  summer  dawn  is  breaking' 
[A  Song  of  Twenty-Nine]."  —  "  From  that  day  to  this  no  class 
meeting  of  1829  has  been  without  a  poem  from  you  —  not  one." 
It  is  true,  none  the  less,  that  there  was  no  contribution  from  Dr. 
Holmes  in  1852.  "Questions  and  Answers,"  which  had  been 
printed  in  1849,  was  sung  by  him  at  the  meeting  in  1850;  it  was 
printed  among  the  Class  songs  in  1854,  and  in  the  second  edition 
(1859)  was  relegated  to  the  Appendix,  with  the  words  "From 
Dr.  Holmes's  Poems."  In  the  third  edition  (1868),  it  took  its 
place  as  of  1852,  although  with  a  slightly  different  designation 


[64] 

from  the  other  poems  ("For  the  Class,  1852"),  and  has  been  so 
printed  in  all  collected  editions  since  1877,  although  it  was  origi- 
nally written  much  earher  than  1852,  and  not  for  the  Class. 

Qui  Vive 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  Nov.,  1836,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  pp. 

468-469. 
Poems,  1836. 

Readings  over  the  Teacups.   Five  Stories  and  a  Sequel 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
To  my  Old  Readers. 
The  Banker's  Secret. 
The  Exile's  Secret. 
The  Lover's  Secret. 
The  Statesman's  Secret. 
The  Mother's  Secret. 
The  Secret  of  the  Stars. 
There  are  also  interiudes  between  each  two  of  the  poems  (e»- 
cluding  "To  my  Old  Readers "),  which  had  never  before  been 
printed.     See  "Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian 

The  Collegian,  May,  1830,  no.  4,  p.  199. 
Poems,  1836. 

Remember  —  Forget  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan. 
10,  1856) 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1859,  pp.  17-19. 
The  title  here  is  "Song,"  simply. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Response  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  to  the  fol- 
lowing Toast,  etc. 

See  "Poem  for  the  Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation," May  5,  1853. 

Rhymed  Lesson,  A 

See  "Urania ;  a  Rhymed  Lesson." 
Rhymed  Riddle,  A 

Fair  Words,  1876.     See  Appendix,  p.  309,  injra. 


[65] 

Rhymes  of  a  Life-Time  (Aug.  2,  1881) 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Originally  appeared,  without  title,  as  a  Prelude  to  Poems, 
Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

♦[Riddle] 

Fair  Play,  1875,  p.  3. 

This  is  a  book  of  riddles,  compiled  for  sale  at  a  fair  in 
Waltham,  Mass.  Pamphlet,  16mo,  pp.  20.  Dr.  Holmes's  con- 
tribution is  Number  I  ("by  permission"). 

My  name  declares  my  date  to  be 

The  morning  of  a  Christian  year. 
Though  motherless,  as  all  agree, 

I  am  a  mother,  it  is  clear; 
A  father,  too,  without  dispute, 

And  when  my  son  comes,  —  he 's  a  jruit. 
And,  not  to  puzzle  you  too  much, 
'T  was  I  gave  Holland  to  the  Dutch. 
The  answer  is  "Adam."  A  copy  of  Fair  Play,  with  an 
autograph  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes  inserted,  was  sold  at  the 
William  Harris  Arnold  Sale  in  1901,  for  $12.00;  another  copy 
at  the  Pyser  Sale  in  1906,  for  $11.00. 

Rip  Van  Winkle,  M.  D.  An  After-Dinner  Prescription  taken 
by  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  at  their  meeting 
held  May  25,  1870 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  9,  1870,  n.  s. 

vol.  5,  pp.  444-446.* 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Robinson  of  Leyden 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1859,  vol.  4,  p.  128,  in  the  "Professor." 
Illustrated  Pilgrim  Almanac  for  1860,  p.  20. 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  220-221. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

^  "In  placing  at  the  head  of  the  Editor's  table  the  following  poem,  read 
by  O.  W.  Holmes,  at  the  recent  dinner  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society,  we  attain  the  object  of  our  himger  and  thirst.  We  had  failed  to 
secure  it  by  oiu*  own  syren  songs  of  persuasion,  though  attuned  to  their 
most  dulcet  notes.  But  the  following  letter  from  the  poet's  former  friends 
in  the  profession  in  Berkshire  was  too  much  for  his  obduracy  —  and  here 
we  have  it." 


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Roman  Aqueduct,  A 
Poems,  1836. 
See  "The  Claudian  Aqueduct." 

*  Romance 

The  Collegian,  March,  1830,  no.  2,  p.  60. 

Rose,  The,  and  the  Fern 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1890,  vol.  65,  p.  560,  in  "  Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  p.  118. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Rudolph  the  Headsman 

Parnassus,  R.  W.  Emerson,  editor,  1875. 
Taken  from  the  poem  in  the  "Autocrat  "beginning:  "A  pro- 
logue.? Well,  of  course  the  ladies  know."    See  ["Prologue"]. 

*  Rtmaway  Ballads  I  and  n 

The  Collegian,  Feb.,  1830,  no.  1,  pp.  11-12. 

As  these  are  the  earliest  in  date  of  those  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes 
which  it  has  been  found  possible  to  trace  (except  the  transla- 
tion from  the  ^neid,  "First  Verses"),  they  are  here  given  at 
length. 

I 

Wake  from  thy  slumbers,  Isabel,  the  stars  are  in  the  sky. 
And  night  has  hung  her  silver  lamp,  to  light  our  altar  by; 
The  flowers  have  closed  their  fading  leaves,  and  droop  upon 

the  plain, 
O  wake  thee,  and  their  dying  hues  shall  blush  to  life  again. 

In  such  a  sacred  hour  as  this,  how  beams  the  eye  of  love. 
When  all  is  mellowed  shade  below,  and  all  is  Hght  above; 
And  oh,  how  soft  a  maiden's  sigh  melts  on  the  midnight  air. 
When  scarce  a  wanton  zephyr  breathes,  to  wave  her  silken  hair. 

The  rattle  of  the  soldier's  steel  has  left  the  silent  hall, 
The  mastiff  slumbers  at  the  gate,  the  sentry  on  the  wall; 
And  there,  by  many  a  stately  barge,  that  rocks  upon  the  tide, 
A  bark  is  floating  on  the  waves  and  dancing  by  their  side. 


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And  when  before  the  flowing  wind  she  spreads  her  eagle  wings, 
And  Hke  a  halcyon,  from  her  breast  the  shivered  billow  flings; 
Though  many  a  prouder  pendant  flies  before  the  ocean  breeze. 
No  keel  can  track  her  foaming  path,  that  sweeps  the  sparkhng 
seas. 

Then  come  to  me,  my  lovely  one,  and  haste  we  far  away. 
And  we  will  reach  the  distant  isle  before  the  break  of  day; 
Let  not  thy  gentle  eyes  grow  dim,  thy  rosy  cheek  grow  pale, 
For  thou  shalt  find  a  beating  heart  beneath  a  warrior's  mail. 

II 
Get  up!  get  up!  Miss  Polly  Jones,  the  tandem's  at  the  door; 
Get  up,  and  shake  your  lovely  bones,  it's  twelve  o'clock  and 

more, 
The  chaises  they  have  rattled  by,  and  nothing  stirs  around, 
And  all  the  world,  but  you  and  I,  are  moving  safe  and  sound. 

I  broke  a  drunken  watchman's  nap,  and  he  began  to  mutter, 
I  gave  him  just  a  gentle  tap,  that  helped  him  to  the  gutter; 
The  cur-dog  growled  an  ugly  growl,  and  grinned  a  bitter  grin; 
I  tipped  the  beast  a  rat's-bane  pill,  to  keep  his  music  in. 

When  Squaretoes  stumps  about  the  house,  and  does  n't  find 

you  there. 
And  all  the  folks  are  in  a  touse,  my  eyes!  how  dad  will  stare! 
He  locked  and  double-locked  the  door,  and  saw  you  safe  abed. 
And  never  dreamed  a  jailor's  paw  could  scratch  a  booby's  head. 

Come  hurry!    hurry!    Polly  Jones,  it  is  no  time  to  snooze; 
Don't  stop  for  t'other  petticoat,  nor  fidget  for  your  shoes; 
I  have  a  quilted  wrapper  here,  your  tender  limbs  to  fold. 
It's  growing  mighty  chilly,  dear,  and  I  shall  catch  a  cold. 

I've  got  my  gouty  uncle's  bay,  and  trotting  Peggy  too, 

I  've  Kned  their  tripes  with  oats  and  hay,  and  now  for  love  and 

you; 
The  lash  is  curling  in  the  air,  and  I  am  at  your  side. 
To-morrow  you  are  Mrs.  Snaggs,  my  bold  and  blooming  bride. 

R[ussell],  J[ames]  D[utton]  (Read  at  the  Class  Meeting, 
Jan.  23,  1862) 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  p.  63. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 
In  the  former,  under  the  title  "In  Memory  of  J.  D.  R." 


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Sabbath  in  Boston,  A 

The  Rosary  of  Ulustrations  of  the  Bible,  1848. 
A  passage  from  "Urania:  a  Rhymed  Lesson." 

Saint  Anthony  the  Reformer  —  His  Temptation 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1859,  vol.  4,  p.  243,  in  the  "Pro- 
fessor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  255-256. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Sargent,  Howard 

See  "H.  C.  M.,  H.  S.,  J.  K.  W." 

*  Scenes  from  an  Unpublished  Play 

The  Collegian,  March,  1830,  no.  2,  pp.  61-62;  April,  no.  3. 
pp.  138-140;  July,  no.  6,  pp.  265-268. 

*  Sceptres  and  thrones  the  morning  realms  have  tried 

See  Appendix,  p.  310,  infra. 
ScHOOL-BoY,  The 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

*  Scintilla,  A 

Addresses  at  the  Inauguration  of  Jared  Sparks,  LL.  D.,  as 
President  of  Harvard  College,  June  20,  1849,  p.  11. 

The  author's  name  is  not  suggested  here,  but  a  printed  copy 
of  the  poem,  preserved  in  the  Hansard  College  Library,  has 
written  upon  it  the  words,  "Written  by  O.  W.  Holmes." 

THE  TASK 

Twelve  well-crammed  hues,  firm,  juicy,  marrowy,  sweet, 
No  bone  or  trimmings,  nothing  here  but  meat, 
With  rhyme  run  through  them  like  a  golden  skewer, 
Taste  might  approve  and  patience  may  endure. 

THE   EXECUTION 

Long  live  old  Harvard !    Lo,  her  rushing  train 

Greets  a  new  sign-board  stretched  across  the  plain; 

While  the  bell  rings  —  (and  that  the  bell  shall  do 

Till  Charles  shall  drop  his  worn-out  channel  through,)  — 

It  gently  hints  to  every  cur  that  barks. 

Here  comes  the  engine^  —  don't  you  see  the  Sparks  ? 


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How  changed  the  scene!   The  forest  path  is  clear; 
That  mighty  engine  finds  no  Indian  here  ! 
The  world's  great  teachers  quit  their  native  Alps 
To  fill  the  skulls  once  trembling  for  their  scalps, 
When  the  red  neighbors  of  our  ancient  school 
Left  their  own  vngwams  others*  wigs  to  cool ! 

Sea  Dialogue,  A 

The  Boatswain's  Whistle  (pubKshed  at  the  National  Sailors' 

Fair),  November  12,  1864,  no.  4,  p.  27. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Secret  of  the  Stars,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862,  as  one  of  the  group  Pictures 

from  Occasional  Poems;  so  in 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 
See  *'Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Semi-centennial  Celebration  of  the  New  England  Society 
in  New  York,  Dec.  22,  1855 

Pamphlet  of  above  title,  1856,  pp.  83-84;  preceded  by  re- 
marks by  Dr.  Holmes,  pp.  82-83. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

The  New  England  Society  Orations.  Addresses,  Sennons 
and  Poems,  etc.,  1901,  pp.  269-270. 

Sentiment,  A 

"The  pledge  of  Friendship!  it  is  still  divine." 
Poems,  1849. 

Sentiment,  A  (Written  for  the  Eighth  Anniversary  of  the 
American  Medical  Association) 

"A  triple  health  to  Friendship,  Science,  Art." 
Leaflet. 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  May  17,  1855,  vol.  52, 

p.  305. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  first  printed  with  title. 

Sentiment,  A 

See  "Extracts  from  a  Medical  Poem." 


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September  Gale,  The 
Poems,  1836. 

Shadows,  The  (Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8, 1880) 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 
Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1881,  pp. 
192-194. 

Shakespeare  Tercentennial  Celebration  (April  23, 1864) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1864,  vol.  13,  pp.  762-763. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Sherman's    in    Savannah!    a    Half-Rhymed    Impromptu 
(Written  for  Class  Meeting,  Jan.,  1865) 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829, 1868,  p.  83. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Ship  of  State,  The  (Woodstock,  Conn.,  July  4,  1877) 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Read  on  the  same  occasion  as  "A  Family  Record." 

Silent  Melody,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1878,  vol.  42,  p.  335. 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

*  Six  Verses 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  July,  1833,  vol.  5, 
p.  44. 

Smiling  Listener,   The   (Written  for  the   Class   Meeting, 
Jan.  5,  1871) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

The  date,  1871,  is  given  correctly  in  the  Contents,  but  in  the 
text  it  is  given  as  1872. 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

137-140. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  printed  with  no  other  title  than 
"Lines." 

Smith,  Rev.  Samuel  F.,  D.  D. 

See  "To  the  Reverend  S.  F.  Smith,  D.D." 
Song  for  the  Centeimial  Celebration  of  Harvard  College,  A 

Poems,  1849,  2d  issue. 


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"This  song,  which  I  had  the  temerity  to  sing  myself  (felix 
audada,  Mr.  Franklin  Dexter  had  the  goodness  to  call  it),  was 
sent  in  a  httle  too  late  to  be  printed  with  the  official  account  of 
the  celebration.  It  was  written  at  the  suggestion  of  Dr.  Jacob 
Bigelow,  who  thought  the  popular  tune  *  The  Poacher's  Song' 
would  be  a  good  model  for  a  Kvely  ballad  or  ditty."  —  Note  of 
Dr.  Holmes  in  Riverside  Edition  of  Poems. 

Song  for  a  Temperance  Dinner  to  which  Ladies  were  In- 
vited 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Originally  printed  as  "  Song,  written  for  the  Annual  Dinner  of 
the  New  York  Mercantile  Library  Association,"  in  Poems,  1846. 

Song  of  Other  Days,  A 
Poems,  1849. 

Sung  by  Dr.  Holmes  to  the  Class  of  1829,  at  its  meeting  at 
Commencement,  1847. 

*  Song  of  the  Henpecked 

The  Amateur,  Oct.  1,  1830,  no.  7,  p.  116. 

Song  of  "Twenty-Nine,"  A  (Written  for  the  Annual  Meet- 
ing, 1851) 

Broadside,  pp.  4  (page  4  blank),  dated  Jan.  2, 1851. 

Songs  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1854. 

Poems,  Household  Edition;  1877. 

This  was  really  the  first  of  the  long  series  of  poems  written 
by  Dr.  Holmes  expressly  for  the  meetings  of  the  Class  of  1829. 
It  was  written  in  response  to  a  unanimous  vote  of  the  Class, 
passed  at  the  meeting  of  1850,  and  was  sung  in  1851  to  the  tune 
of  "The  Bay  of  Biscay,  O  !"     See  "Questions  and  Answers." 

*  Song  of  Welcome 

Complimentary  Banquet  given  by  the  City  Council  of  Boston 
to  Rear-Admiral  Lessoffsky  and  the  Officers  of  the  Rus- 
sian Fleet,  at  the  Revere  House,  June  8,  1864,  p.  57. 

See  Appendix,  p.  310,  infra. 

Sea-birds  of  Muscovy,  rest  in  our  waters, 
Fold  your  white  wings  by  our  rock-girded  shore; 

While  with  glad  voices  its  sons  and  its  daughters 
Welcome  the  friends  ye  have  wafted  us  o'er. 


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Sea-kings  of  Neva,  our  hearts  throb  your  greeting! 

Deep  as  the  anchors  your  frigates  let  fall; 
Down  to  the  fount  where  our  life-pulse  is  beating, 

Sink  the  kind  accents  you  bear  to  us  aU. 

Fires  of  the  North,  in  eternal  communion, 

Blend  your  broad  flashes  with  evening's  bright  star ! 

God  bless  the  Empire  that  loves  the  great  Union; 
Strength  to  her  people  !   Long  life  to  the  Czar  ! 

Song,  written  for  the  Annual  Dinner  of  the  New  York  Mer- 
cantile Library  Association  [1842] 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

See  "Song  for  a  Temperance  Dinner  to  which  Ladies  were 
Invited." 

Song,  written  for  the  Dinner  given  to  Charles  Dickens  by 
the  Young  Men  of  Boston  [1842] 

Report  of  the  Dinner  given  to  Charles  Dickens,  in  Boston, 
February  1st,  1842,  p.  33.    (Sung  to  the  air  "  Gramachree. ") 

Poems,  London,  1846. 

A  copy  of  this  poem,  printed  on  a  folio  sheet,  presumably  for 
distribution  at  the  dinner,  was  sold  at  Anderson's  in  Oct.,  1902, 
for  $8.25. 

Souvenir,  A 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  Nov.,  1836,  n.  s.   vol.  2,  pp. 

498-499. 
Poems,  1836. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Household  or  Riverside  Edition. 

Spectre  Pig,  The 

The  Collegian,  May,  1830,  no.  4,  pp.  180-182. 
Poems,  1836. 

Spring 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

"Spring,"  Uke  "The Study,"  "The Bells,"  "Non-Resistance," 
"The  Moral  Bully,"  "The  Mind's  Diet."  and  "Our  Limita- 
tions," was  originally  a  part  of  the  long  poem,  "Astraea:  the 
Balance  of  Illusions,"  delivered    before  the   Yale    Phi    Beta 


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Kappa  in  1850,  and  printed  in  that  year  in  pamphlet  form. 
These  extracts  were  printed  in  Songs  in  Many  Keys  under  the 
group  heading.  Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  which  has 
been  retained  in  the  Household  Edition,  but  was  discarded  in 
the  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Spring  has  Come  —  Intra  Muros 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  110-111,  in  the 

"  Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  228-230. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Stability  of  Science,  The 

See  "Extracts  from  a  Medical  Poem." 

Stanzas 

"Strange!  that  one  lightly  whispered  tone." 
The  Collegian,  July  30,  no.  6,  p.  268. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  60-61. 
Poems,  1836. 

Star,  The,  and  the  Lily 

The  Amateur,  Oct.  1,  1830,  no.  7,  p.  105. 

Star,  The,  and  the  Water-Lily 
Poems,  1836. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "The  Star  and  the  Lily," 
in  the  Amateur,  as  above. 

*  Star-Spangled  Banner,  The.    Additional  verse 

Sheet  music,  4to.  Pubhshed  by  OKver  Ditson  &  Co.  [c.  186l]. 

When  our  land  is  illxmi'd  with  Uberty*s  smile, 
If  a  foe  from  within  strike  a  blow  at  her  glory, 
Down,  down,  with  the  traitor  that  dares  to  defile 
The  flag  of  her  stars  and  the  page  of  her  story. 
By  the  miUions  unchain *d  who  our  birthright  have  gained. 
We  will  keep  her  bright  blazon  forever  unstained. 
And  the  star-spangled  banner  in  triumph  shall  wave 
While  the  land  of  the  free  is  the  home  of  the  brave. 

This  stanza  was  sung  by  "  Our  Sweet  Singer "  (Mr.  Angier) 
at  the  Class  Meeting  of  Jan.  8,  1863. 


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State  Prison  Melodies 

See  "The  Treadmill  Song." 
Statesman's  Secret,  The 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891,  in  "Readings  over  the  Tea- 
cups." 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Originally  printed,  under  the  title  "The  Disappointed  States- 
man," as  one  of  the  group  Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems, 
in  Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862,  and  still  so  printed  in  Household 
Edition.    See  "Each  Heart  has  its  own  Secret." 

Steamboat,  The 

The  Boston  Book,  1841,  pp.  25-27. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 

Stethoscope  Song,  The 

Poems.  1849. 
Stratford-on-Avon,  Dedication  of  the  Fountain  at 

See  "Poem  for  the  Dedication,"  etc. 
Study,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

See  note  to  "Spring." 

Sumner,  Charles,  Hymn  at  the  Funeral  Services  of 

See  "Hymn  at  the  Funeral  Services,"  etc. 
Sun  and  Shadow 

Atlantic  Monthly,Dec.,  1857, vol.  l,p.  181, in  the  "Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  45-46. 
In  last-mentioned  volume  first  printed  with  title. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Sun-Day  Hynm,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec. ,  1859,  vol.  4,  p.  766,  in  the  "  Professor. " 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  402-403. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

*  Simset  Scene  (The  Athenaeum  Gallery) 

The  Amateur,  July  3,  1830,  no.  2,  p.  24. 
Swain,  W.  W. 

See  "The  Last  Look." 


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Sweet  Little  Man,  The 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

*  Tail-Piece,  The 

The  Collegian,  July,  1830,  no.  6,  pp.  289-290. 

This  poem  closed  the  sixth  and  last  number  of  the  Collegian. 
It  is  introduced  by  these  words  :  "  We  subjoin  the  following 
poetical  finale,  written  by  our  most  valued  correspondent  at  the 
request  of  the  Club." 

Kind  world,  sweet  world,  on  every  earthly  shore. 
From  Boston's  dome  to  China's  porcelain  tower. 

We  bend  our  knee  in  lowly  guise  once  more, 
To  ask  a  blessing  on  our  parting  hour. 

Our  bud  was  nursed  in  Winter's  tempest  roar, 
The  dews  of  spring  fell  on  the  opened  flower; 

The  stem  is  snapped,  and  blue-eyed  Summer  sees 

Our  lilac  leaflets  scattered  to  the  breeze. 

No  more  we  float  upon  the  tide  of  time. 
That  fills  the  chaHce  of  the  star-girt  moon; 

The  sober  essay  and  the  sounding  rhyme 
Are  as  the  echoes  of  a  ceasing  tune; 

From  neighboring  village  and  from  distant  cUme, 
From  bare-walled  study  and  from  gay  saloon, 

We  softly  sink  to- dark  obKvion's  shade. 

Unwept,  unblest,  unhonored,  and  unpaid. 

The  vagrant  printer  may  resume  his  quill. 
To  scribble  school-boy  on  the  nameless  tomb; 

The  hard-eyed  pedant  call  us,  if  he  will, 

Precocious  children,  nursed  to  fruitless  bloom; 

The  sad  subscriber  eye  his  tardy  bill. 

And  knit  his  brows  in  unavailing  gloom  — 

The  printer's  satire  and  the  pedant's  frown. 

The  debtor's  sigh,  we  swallow  boldly  down. 

But  thou,  sweet  maiden,  as  thy  fingers  turn 
The  last  poor  leaf  that  claims  thine  idle  glance, 

If  there  was  aught  to  feel  or  aught  to  learn 
In  ode  or  treatise,  vision,  dream,  or  trance,  — 

If  the  cold  dust  of  the  neglected  urn 

Has  ever  warmed  thee,  by  some  happy  chance. 


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Should  aunts  look  grim,  or  fathers  shake  the  head, 
Plead  for  the  harmless  ashes  of  the  dead. 

Ethereal  being,  thou  whose  melting  eye 

Looks  down  Hke  heaven  where'er  its  glances  fall. 

On  noiseless  slipper,  ghding  softly  by. 
So  sweetly  drest,  so  proper,  and  so  tall, 

The  dew-fed  offspring  of  the  summer  sky, 
Beau,  critic,  poet,  soldier,  each  and  all. 

From  the  dormeuse,  where  thy  soft  limbs  recline. 

Sigh  out  a  requiem  o*er  our  broken  shrine. 

The  fire  is  out  —  the  incense  all  has  fled; 

And  will  thy  gentle  heart  refuse  to  grieve .'' 
Forget  the  horrors  of  the  cap-crowned  head, 

The  fatal  symbol  on  a  student's  sleeve, 
Think  that  a  boy  may  grow  if  he  is  fed. 

And  stroke  us  softly  as  we  take  our  leave; 
Say  we  were  clever,  knowing,  smart,  or  wise. 
But  do  say  something,  if  you  d — ^n  our  eyes. 

Ye  who  have  shrunk  not,  dangerous  though  it  seem, 
To  lay  your  hands  on  yet  unlaureled  brows. 

If  e'er  we  meet  —  and  frown  not  if  we  deem 

Fame  yet  may  smile  on  boyhood's  burning  vows  - 

Bound  in  the  garlands  that  we  fondly  dream 
May  yet  be  gathered  from  Parnassian  boughs; 

Yours  be  the  praise,  who  led  our  doubtful  way. 

Till  harmless  Hatred  threw  his  brick  away. 

Perchance  we  greet  you,  not  as  late  we  came. 
In  meagre  pamphlet,  bound  in  flimsy  fold. 

But  from  a  page  that  bears  a  prouder  name. 
With  silken  covers  and  with  edge  of  gold; 

Look  then  in  kindness  on  our  higher  claim 
And  bid  us  welcome  as  ye  did  of  old; 

So  may  your  lives  in  pleasure  glide  along. 

Rich  as  our  prose,  and  sweeter  than  our  song. 

Peace  with  you  all  —  the  summer  sun  will  rise 
Not  less  resplendent  that  we  are  no  more: 

The  evening  stars  will  gird  the  arching  skies. 
The  winds  will  murmur,  and  the  waters  roar  — 


[  '^'^  ] 

Our  faded  way  is  lost  to  mortal  eyes, 

Our  wave  has  broken  on  the  silent  shore  — 
One  whisper  rises  from  the  weeping  spray  — 
Farewell,  dear  readers  —  and  be  sure  to  pay. 
Tartarus 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1890,  vol.  66,  pp.  399-400,  in  "  Over 

the  Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  259-260. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Terpsichore  (Phi  Beta  Kappa,  Harvard,  Aug.  24,  1843) 
Graham's  Magazine,^  Jan.,  1844,  vol.  24,  pp.  10-11. 
Poems,  London,  1846. 
See  "  An  After-Dinner  Poem." 

^  See  Passages  from  the  Correspondence  and  Other  Papers  of  Rufiis  W. 
Griswold  (Cambridge,  1898),  p.  146,  where  the  following  letter  to  Mr. 
Griswold,  editor  of  Graham's,  relating  to  this  poem,  is  printed:  — 

Boston,  Sept.  1st,  1843. 
My  dear  Sib: 

I  read  a  Poem  at  the  dinner  table  of  the  Hii  Beta  Kappa  at  Cambridge 
the  other  day  which  I  should  like  to  publish  in  Graham's  Magazine,  if  the 
editors  want  it  and  are  willing  to  pay  for  it. 

It  consists  at  present  of  166  lines  in  the  heroic  measure  —  but  I  should 
be  inclined  to  make  it  about  two  hundred,  or  very  nearly  that,  by  certain 
additions.  I  believe  that  for  me  it  was  remarkably  happy,  but  you  may 
think  it  no  great  thing.  At  any  rate  it  has  more  point  in  it  than  most  of  the 
things  of  the  kind  I  have  done  lately. 

Two  or  three  weeks  ago  Mr.  Frost,  on  the  part  of  Gode/s  Lady's  Book, 
made  me  some  Uberal  offers  for  anything  I  would  give  him.  I  answered 
that  I  felt  bound  to  offer  them  to  you  first,  but  without  the  least  idea  that 
I  should  so  soon  have  anything  to  publish.  I  therefore  mention  it  to  you 
and  end  my  proposals  with  these  questions : 

1.  Do  you  want  such  a  poem? 

2.  What  will  you  give  me  for  it  ? 

3.  Are  you  afraid  of  a  hint  at  repudiation  in  it  ? 

4.  Can  it  be  published  in  your  Magazine  word  for  word,  letter  for  letter, 
comma  for  comma? 

5.  Do  you  want  to  see  it  before  you  meddle  with  it  ? 

This  is  a  very  straight-forward  business  letter,  and  does  not  require  any 
answer  unless  you  want  the  Poem.  If  so  I  shall  hear  from  you.  Believe  me 
very  truly 

Your  Friend, 

O.  W.  Holmes. 
P.  S.  No  tender  feelings  are  concerned  which  might  interfere  with  Edi- 
torial interests. 


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*  "  This  evening  hour,  which  gratefiil  memory  spares  " 

Pamphlet,  16mo,  pp.  8. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  11, 1894,  vol.  131, 
pp.  377-379. 

A  footnote  in  the  Journal  informs  us  that  this  poem,  some 
lines  of  which  are  omitted,  "was  read  at  a  medical  supper- 
party  about  forty-eight  years  ago;"  and  on  the  first  page  of  the 
pamphlet  is  the  following  note  :  "  These  verses  were  read  at  a 
medical  supper-party  about  the  year  1845." 

There  is  nothing  to  indicate  when  the  pamphlet  was  printed. 
Copies  have  been  sold  at  auction  as  follows:  Libbie's,  1890, 
$12.00;  Arnold  Sale,  1901,  $14.00;  Drury  Sale,  1906,  $15.50. 
The  Boston  Medical  Library  Association  owns  a  pamphlet  copy 
of  the  poem  ;  also  a  manuscript  copy,  formeriy  owned  by  the 
late  Dr.  James  R.  Chadwick. 

*  This  shrine  a  precious  gift  enfolds 

Memoir  of  Dr.  James  Jackson,  by  Dr.  James  J.  Putnam, 

1905,  pp.  414-415. 
These  verses  accompanied  the  gift  of  a  set  of  silver  salt-cellars 
to  Dr.  Jackson  on  his  eightieth  birthday,  Oct.  3,  1857. 

This  shrine  a  precious  gift  enfolds; 

Look,  when  its  lids  unclose. 
Not  on  the  shining  cross  it  holds. 

But  on  the  love  it  shows. 

What  though  the  silvered  brow  may  seem 

Amid  the  youthful  throng 
A  Httle  farther  down  the  stream 

That  bears  us  all  along ; 

Those  murmuring  waves  are  mute  to-day, 

The  stream  forgets  to  nm. 
The  brown  locks  mingle  with  the  gray. 

And  all  our  hearts  are  one. 

Ah,  could  we  bring  earth's  sweetest  song 

And  bear  its  brightest  gold, 
The  gift  our  grateful  hearts  would  wrong. 

Our  love  were  still  untold. 


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*  Thoughts  m  Dejection 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Sept.,  1831,  vol.  1, 

p.  239. 
The  Harbinger  (1833),  pp.  51-52. 

Thus  Saith  the  Lord  (1862) 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
To  a  Blank  Sheet  of  Paper 

The  Amateur,  July  17,  1830,  no.  3,  pp.  39-40. 

Poems,  1836. 

To  a  Caged  Lion 

The  Collegian,  April,  1830,  no.  3,  p.  103. 

*  To  a  Lady  with  her  Back  to  Me 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Nov.,  1831,  vol.  1, 
p.  429;  in  the  first  "Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,"  pt.  i. 

I  know  thy  face  is  fresh  and  bright. 

Thou  angel-moulded  girl; 
I  caught  one  glimpse  of  purest  white, 

I  saw  one  auburn  curl. 

O  would  the  whispering  ripples  breathe 

The  thoughts  that  vainly  strive  — 
She  turns  —  she  turns  to  look  on  me; 

Black!    cross-eyed!    seventy-five! 

To  an  EngUsh  Friend 
Poems,  London,  1852.^ 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

To  an  Insect 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Sept.,  1831,  vol.  1, 

p.  235. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  53-55. 
The  Boston  Book,  1836,  pp.  229-230. 
Poems,  1836. 

To  Canaan.    A  Puritan  War-Song  (Aug.  12,  1862) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

"This  poem,  published  anonymously  in  the  Boston  Evening 
*  Printed  as  a  sort  of  dedication  of  this  edition. 


[80] 

Transcript,  was  claimed  by  several  persons,  three,  if  I  remember 
correctly,  whose  names  I  have  or  have  had,  but  never  thought 
it  worth  while  to  pubhsh."  —  Note  of  Dr.  Holmes  in  River- 
side Edition. 

To  James  Freeman  Clarke  (April  4,  1880) 

Seventieth  Birthday  of  James  Freeman  Clarke.     Memorial 

of  the  Celebration  by  the  Church  of  the  Disciples,  Monday, 

April  5,  1880,  pp.  11-12. 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 
See  "A  Birthday  Tribute." 

To  Christian  Gottfried  Ehrenberg  (For  his   Jubilaeum  at 
Berlin,  Nov.  5,  1868) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

*  To  Fame 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Nov.,  1831,  vol.  1, 
p.  430;  in  the  first  ''Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,"  pt.  i. 

They  say  thou  hast  a  hundred  tongues; 

My  wife  has  only  one; 
If  she  had  been  equipped  like  thee, 

O,  what  should  I  have  done! 

The  Echo 
Nay,  dearest  stranger,  do  not  shout; ' 
My  wife  has  worn  the  echo  out. 

*  To  J[ohn]  M[urray]  F[orbes].    On  his  Eightieth  Birthday, 
Feb.  23,  1813-Feb.  23,  1893 

Letters  and  Recollections  of  John  Murray  Forbes  (Sarah 
Forbes  Hughes),  1899,  vol.  i,  p.  35. 

"It  was  this  most  genial  of  poets  who  wrote  the  verses  given 
below,  for  the  Saturday  that  fell  next  after  my  father's  eightieth 
birthday,  when  they  dined  together  at  the  [Saturday]  club." 

I  know  thee  well.    From  olden  time 
Thou  hadst  a  weakness  for  a  rhyme. 
And  wilt  with  gracious  smile  excuse 
The  languor  of  a  laggard  muse. 
Whose  gait  betrays  in  every  line 
The  weight  of  years  outnumbering  thine. 


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And  who  will  care  for  blame  or  praise, 
When  love  each  syllable  betrays  ? 

The  seven-barred  gate  has  long  been  past. 
The  eighth  tall  decade  cleared  at  last; 
But  when  its  topmost  bar  is  crossed 
Think  not  that  life  its  charm  hath  lost ; 
Ginger  will  still  be  hot  in  mouth. 
And  winter  winds  blow  sometimes  south. 
And  youth  might  almost  long  to  take 
A  slice  of  fourscore's  frosted  cake. 

Thrice  welcome  to  the  chosen  band, 
Culled  from  the  crowd  by  Natiu*e's  hand: 
No  warmer  heart  for  us  shall  beat. 
No  freer  hand  in  friendship  meet. 
Long  may  he  breathe  om*  mortal  air. 
For  heaven  has  souls  enough  to  spare. 
Lay  at  his  feet  the  fairest  flowers  — 
Thank  God  he  still  is  Earth's  and  ours. 

To  R[utherford]  B.  H[ayes],  Boston,  June  26,  1877 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

To  Frederick  Henry  Hedge    (At  a  Dinner  given  him  on 
his  Eightieth  Birthday,  Dec.   12,  1885.    With  a  bronze 
Statuette  of  John  of  Bologna's  Mercury,  presented  by 
a  few  friends) 
Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1886,  vol.  57,  p.  374,  in  "Two 
'Occasional'  Poems  with  an  Introduction"  ("The  New 
Portfolio"). 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

To  H.  W.  Longfellow  (Before  his  departure  for  Europe, 
May  27,  1868) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

To  J[ames]  R[ussell]  L[owell] 

"This  is  your  month,  the  month  of  *  perfect  days.'" 
Atlantic  Monthly,  August,  1885,  vol.  56,  p.  263. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 
See  "Two  Anniversary  After-Dinner  Poems." 


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To  James  Russell  Lowell  (At  the  liinner  given  in  his  honor 
at  the  Tavern  Club,  on  his  Seventieth  Birthday,  Feb. 
22,  1889) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1889,  vol.  63,  pp.  556-558. 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 
Not  in  Riverside  Edition. 

To  my  Companions 

The  Collegian,  April,  1830,  no.  3,  pp.  122-123. 

Poems,  1836. 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Not  in  Household  or  Riverside  Edition. 

*  To  my  Neighbour,  Who  Sings  and  Plays  on  the  Piano- 
forte 
The  Amatem-,  April  23,  1831,  no.  19,  pp.  291-292.    Signed 
O.  W.  H. 

To  my  Old  Readers 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891,  as  Prelude  to  "Readings  over 

the  Teacups." 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

To  my  Readers 

Poems,  Blue  and  Gold  Edition,  1862. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "The  Poet  to  the  Read- 
ers," in  Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1862,  vol.  10,  pp.  118-119. 

To  George  Peabody^  (Danvers,  1866) 
The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

To  Governor  Swain 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Printed  under  the  title  "  Answer  to  an  Invitation,"  in  Verses 
from  the  Island  Book,  1865,  where  the  first  line  has  sTdff 
instead  of  hark. 

"Governor  "Swain  (see  "Island  Hunting-Song,"  p.  40, 
supra)  was  an  uncle  of  the  wife  of  John  M.  Forbes,  a  later 
owner  of  Naushon  island.  The  poem  was  written  at  Pittsfield 
in  1851,  says  Mr.  Scudder. 

1  See  Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of  O.  W.  H.,  vol.  ii,  pp.  180-181. 


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To  the  Eleven  Ladies  who  presented  me  with  a  Silver  Lov- 

ing-Cup  on  the  twenty-ninth  of  August,  m  dccc  lxxxix 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1890,  vol.  Q5,  p.  121,  in  "Over  the 

Teacups." 
Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  pp.  43-44. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

*  To  the  Lady  Opposite 

The  Amateur,  March  12,  1831,  no.  16,  p.  244. 

To  the  Poets  who  only  Read  and  Listen  (At  the  Dinner  of 
the  ^.  B.  K.  Society,  June  25,  1885) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  August,  1885,  vol.  56,  pp.  264-265. 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

See  "Two  Anniversary  After-Dinner  Poems." 

To  the  Portrait  of  a  Gentleman 
Poems,  1836. 

To  the  Portrait  of  a  Lady 
Poems,  1836. 

*  To  the  Reverend  S.  F.  Smith,  D.  D.,  Author  of  "My 
Country,  't  is  of  Thee,"  on  his  eightieth  birthday,  Oct. 
21,  1888 

Poems  of  Home  and  Country,  Rev.  Samuel  Francis  Smith, 
1895,  p.  ix.  (With  a  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes  to  Mrs.  Smith.) 

While  through  the  land  the  strains  resound. 

What  added  fame  can  love  impart 
To  him  who  touched  the  string  that  found    . 

Its  echoes  in  a  nation's  heart  ? 

No  stormy  ode,  no  fiery  march. 

His  gentle  memory  shall  prolong; 
But  on  fair  Freedom's  climbing  arch. 

He  shed  the  light  of  hallowed  song. 

Full  many  a  poet's  labored  lines 

A  country's  creeping  waves  will  hide; 

The  verse  a  people's  love  enshrines 

Stands  like  the  rock  that  breasts  the  tide. 


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Time  wrecks  the  proudest  piles  we  raise; 

The  towers,  the  domes,  the  temples  fall; 
The  fortress  ever  crumbles  and  decays,  — 

One  breath  of  song  outlasts  them  all. 

To  the  Teachers  of  America 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Read  at  a  dinner  given  by  IVIr.  Houghton  and  other  publishers, 
during  a  session  in  Boston  of  the  National  Educational  Associa- 
tion, on  February  23,  1893. 

To  John  Greenleaf  Whittier  (On  his  Eightieth  Birthday, 
1887) 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Toad-Stool,  The 

The  Collegian,  Feb.,  1830,  no.  1,  pp.  23-24. 
The  Harbinger  (1833),  pp.  55-56. 
Poems,  1836. 

Toast  to  Wilkie  CoUins,  A  (Feb.  16,  1874) 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 
Too  Young  for  Love 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1890,  vol.  66,  p.  105,  in  "Over  the 
Teacups." 

Over  the  Teacups,  1890,  p.  202. 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

Treadmill  Song,  The  (State  Prison  Melodies) 
The  Amateur,  Aug.  7, 1830,  no.  4,  p.  59. 
The  Gleaner,  or  Selections  in  Prose  and  Poetry  from  the 

Periodical  Press,  1830,  pp.  125-126. 
Poems,  1836,  where  the  broader  title  is  dropped,  not  to  appear 

again. 

*  Triumph  of  Song,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1867,  vol.  20,  pp.  264-265,  in  "The 

Guardian  Angel." 
The  Guardian  Angel,  1867,  pp.  302-303. 

*  Trumpet  Song 

Lyrics  of  Loyalty,  1864,  pp.  150-152. 


[85] 

This  poem,  which  is  quite  unlike  any  other  of  its  author's 
productioDS,  has  a  refrain  after  each  stanza:  — 

Ta  ra!  ta  ta  ta! 
Beat  drums  and  blow  trumpets! 
Trum,  trum,  tra  ra  ra  ra! 

Hurrah,  boys,  hurrah! 

Two  Anniversary  After-Dinner  Poems.    I.    Harvard  Com- 
mencement, June  24,  1885,  to  Jfames]  R[ussell]  L[owell]. 
II.  At  the  Dinner  of  the  ^.  B.  K.  Society,  June  25,  1885; 
to  the  Poets  who  only  Listen 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1885,  vol.  5Q,  pp.  263-265. 

Two  Armies,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1858,  vol.  2,  p.  245,  in  the  "  Autocrat.'* 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  262-264. 
Border  Lines  of  Knowledge,  etc.,  1862,  pp.  79-80. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Two  Poems  to  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  on  her  Seventieth 
Birthday  (June  14,  1882) 
See  "At  the  Summit"  and  "The  World's  Homage." 

*  Two  Shadows,  The 

The  Amateur,  Aug.  7,  1830,  no.  4,  p.  59. 
The  Gleaner,  1830,  pp.  133-134. 
The  Harbinger,  1833,  pp.  49-51. 

Two  streams,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1859,  vol.  3,  p.  770,  in  the  "Pro- 
fessor." 
Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  192-193. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Ugly  Reflections 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  July,  1832,  vol.  3, 
p.  21. 

See  "Daily  Trials,  by  a  Sensitive  Man." 
Under  the  Violets 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1859,  vol.  2, p.  511 ,  in  the  "  Professor." 

Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1859,  pp.  319-320. 
I        Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 


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Little  Classics,  Rossiter  Johnson,  editor,  1875,  vol.  vii,  pp. 
58-59. 

Under  the  Washington  Ehn  (April  27,  1861) 
Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union,  1861,  p.  5. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Union  and  Liberty 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  756-757. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Printed  on  the  programme  for  Commemoration  Day  at 
Harvard  College,  July  21,  1865. 

Unsatisfied 

Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  May  10,  1876  (unsigned). 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

At  the  Donaldson  Sale,  in  1899,  an  autograph  letter  of  Dr. 
Holmes  to  the  editors  of  the  Advertiser,  dated  May  8,  1876, 
together  with  the  original  ms.  of  this  poem,  which  he  inclosed 
in  the  letter,  requesting  that  it  be  printed  anonymously,  was 
sold  for  $16.00. 

Upham,  Charles  Wentworth,  Jr.,  Li  Memory  of 
See  "Li  Memory  of,'*  etc. 

Urania,  a  Phymed  Lesson.   Delivered  before  the  Boston 
Mercantile  Library  Association,  Oct.  14,  1846 
Poems,  1849,  pp.  207-240. 

In  the  later  collections,  printed  under  the  title,  "  A  Rhymed 
Lesson,"  simply.  For  notes  concerning  the  pubHcation  of 
extracts  from  "Urania,"  see  "Boston  Church  Bells"  and  "A 
Sabbath  in  Boston." 

Verses  for  After-Dinner  (Phi  Beta  Kappa,  1844) 
Poems,  1849. 
See  *'  Lines  recited  at  the  Cambridge  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Dinner." 

Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum.  An  Academic  Poem  (Read 
at  the  Commencement  Dinner  of  the  Alumni  of  Harvard 
University,  June  25,  1879,  by  one  of  the  Class  of  1829) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  August,  1879,  vol.  44,  pp.  238-241. 

The  ton  Gate,  and  Other  Poems.  1880. 


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Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1881,  pp. 

186-192. 
"Although  not  written  for  a  class-meeting  [it]  cannot  be 
omitted  from  a  collection  of  poems  of  the  Class  of  1829." 

Vignettes 

Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Under  this  group  heading  are  included:  ^ 

After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth. 
After  a  Lecture  on  Moore. 
After  a  Lecture  on  Keats. 
After  a  Lecture  on  Shelley. 
At  the  Close  of  a  Course  of  Lectiu-es. 
The  Hudson.    After  a  Lecture  at  Albany. 
The  heading  is  retained  in  the  Household  Edition,  but  does 
not  appear  in  the  Riverside,  Cambridge,  or  Cabinet  Edition. 

Vision,  The 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  101- 

105. 
See  "After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth"  and  "A  Vision  of  the 
Housatonic." 

*  Vision  of  Life,  A  (Read  at  the  graduating  exercises  of 
the  Pittsfield  Young  Ladies'  Institute  in  1849) 
The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  111- 

113. 
Dr.  Holmes  made  a  short  speech  (given  on  pp.  110  and  111), 
after  which  he  said: 

"I  will  read  you  a  few  lines  from  a  scrap  of  paper  which,  as 
you  see,  I  have  kept  artfully  concealed  about  my  person." 

A   VISION    OF  LIFE 

The  well-known  weakness  of  the  rhyming  race 
Is  to  be  ready  in  and  out  of  place; 
No  bashful  glow,  no  timid  begging  off. 
No  sudden  hoarseness,  no  discordant  cough 
(Those  coy  excuses  which  your  singers  plead. 
When  faintly  uttering:   "No,  I  can't,  indeed") 
Impedes  your  rhymster  in  his  prompt  career. 
Give  him  but  hint;  and  wofrCt  the  muse  appear  ? 


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So,  without  blushing,  when  they  asked,  I  came  — 

I  whom  the  plough-share,  not  the  quill,  should  claim 

The  rural  nymphs  that  on  my  labors  smile 

May  mend  my  fence,  but  cannot  mend  my  style. 

The  winged  horse  disdains  my  steady  team, 

And  teeming  fancy  must  forget  to  dream. 

I  harrow  fields  and  not  the  hearts  of  men; 

Pigs,  and  not  poems,  claim  my  humble  pen. 

And  then  to  enter  on  so  new  a  stage. 

With  the  I'air  critics  of  this  captious  age. 

Might  lead  a  sceptic  to  the  rude  surmise 

That  cits,  turned  rustics,  are  not  overwise; 

Or  the  bright  verdure  of  the  pastoral  scene 

Had  changed  my  hue,  and  made  me  very  green. 

A  few  brief  words  that,  fading  as  they  fall. 

Like  the  green  garlands  of  a  festal  hall. 

May  lend  one  glow,  one  breath  of  fragrance  pour. 

Ere  swept  ungathered  from  the  silent  floor. 

Such  is  my  offering  for  your  festal  day: 

These  sprigs  of  rhyme;   this  metrical  bouquet. 

O  my  sweet  sisters  —  let  me  steal  the  name 
Nearest  to  love  and  most  remote  from  blame  — 
How  brief  an  hour  of  fellowship  ensures 
The  heart's  best  homage  at  a  shrine  like  yours. 
As  o*er  yom*  band  our  kindling  glances  fall. 
It  seems  a  life-time  since  I  've  known  you  all! 
Yet  on  each  face,  where  youthful  graces  blend. 
Our  partial  memory  still  revives  a  friend; 
The  forms  once  loved,  the  features  once  adored. 
In  her  new  picture  nature  has  restored. 

Those  golden  ringlets,  rippling  as  they  flow. 
We  wreathed  with  blossoms  many  years  ago. 
Seasons  have  wasted;   but,  remembered  yet, 
There  gleams  the  lily  through  those  braids  of  jet. 
Cheeks  that  have  faded,  worn  by  slow  decay. 
Have  caught  new  blushes  from  the  morning's  ray. 
That  simple  ribbon,  crossed  upon  the  breast, 
Wakes  a  poor  heart  that  sobbed  itself  to  rest; 
Aye,  thus  she  wore  it;   tell  me  not  she  died. 
With  that  fair  phantom  floating  by  my  side. 


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T  is  as  of  old:  why  ask  the  vision's  name  ? 
All,  to  the  white  robe's  folding,  is  the  same; 
And  there,  unconscious  of  a  hundred  snows. 
On  that  white  bosom  burns  the  self -same  rose. 

Oh,  dear  illusion,  how  thy  magic  power 

Works  with  two  charms  —  a  maiden  and  a  flower! 

Then  blame  me  not  if,  lost  in  memory's  dream, 

I  cheat  your  hopes  of  some  expansive  theme. 

When  the  pale  starhght  fills  the  evening  dim, 

A  misty  mantle  folds  our  river's  brim. 

In  those  white  wreaths,  how  oft  the  wanderer  sees 

Half  real  shapes,  the  playthings  of  the  breeze. 

While  every  image  in  the  darkening  tide 

Fades  from  its  breast,  unformed  and  undescried. 

Thus,  while  I  stand  among  your  starry  train, 

My  gathering  fancies  turn  to  mist  again. 

O'er  time's  dark  wave  aerial  shadows  play. 

But  all  the  Uving  landscape  melts  away. 

Vision  of  the  Housatonic,  A.    Epilogue  to   a  Lecture  on 
Wordsworth 
Knickerbocker  Gallery  (1855),  pp.  23-26,  with  portrait. 
See  "After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth"  and  "The  Vision." 

Vive  la  France! 

The  Address  of  Mr.  Everett  and  the  Poem  of  Dr.  Holmes  at 

the    Dinner   given   to    H.   H.    Monseigneur   the    Prince 

Napoleon,  Sept.  25,  1861,  pp.  19-20. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Voice  of  the  Loyal  North,  A.    National  Fast,  Jan.  4,  1861 
(Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  3,  1861) 
Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union,  1861,  p.  44. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  59-61. 

Voiceless,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1858,  vol.  2,  p.  630,  in  the  "  Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table  (1858),  pp.  355-356. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 
Little  Classics,  Rossiter  Johnson,  editor,  1875,  vol.  xv,  p.  229. 


[90] 

"The  Voiceless"  is  probably  the  "serious  poem"  to  which 
Longfellow  refers  in  his  Journal  as  having  been  read  by  Holmes 
at  a  dinner  of  the  Harvard  Musical  Association,  Jan.  18,  1858. 

Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union  (Read  at  the  Class  Meet- 
ing, Jan.,  1862) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1862,  vol.  9,  pp.  398-400. 

Poems,  Blue  and  Gold  Edition,  1862. 

Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp.  64-67. 

The  original  ns.  of  this  poem,  6  pp.,  small  4to,  is  in  the 
Harvard  College  Library. 

Waite,  Josiah  Kendall 

See  "H.  C.  M.,  H.  S.,  J.  K.  W." 

Ware,  John  and  Robert,  In  Memory  of 

See  "In  Memory  of  J.  W.    R.  W." 
Warren,  Joseph,  M.  D. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  17, 1875,  vol.  92, 
p.  703. 

Proceedings  of  the  Bunker  Hill  Monument  Association  at 
the  Annual  Meeting,  June  23,  1875,  with  the  Oration  of 
Hon.  Charles  Devens,  Jr.,  and  an  account  of  the  Centen- 
nial Celebration,  June  17,  1875,  p.  154. 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Wasp,  The,  and  the  Hornet 

The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1833,  p.  309. 
The  Boston  Book,  1836,  p.  118. 
Poems,  1836. 

*  "  We  owe,  alas!  to  woman's  sin  " 

Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Hohnes  (Morse),  1896, 
vol.  i,  p.  202. 

"In  1870  Miss  Harriet  Putnam  (now  Mrs.  H.  J.  Hayden,  of 
New  York)  sent  him  an  apple  *  stolen*  from  a  tree  which  over- 
hung the  road  in  front  of  his  old  house,  and  he  replied  thus: " 

We  owe,  alas!  to  woman's  sin 

The  woes  with  which  we  grapple ;  — 

To  think  that  all  our  plagues  came  in 
For  one  poor  stolen  apple! 


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And  still  we  love  the  darling  thief 

Whose  rosy  fingers  stole  it;  — 
Her  weakness  brought  the  world  to  grief, 

Her  smiles  alone  console  it ! 
—  I  take  the  "  stolen"  fruit  you  leave,  — 

(Forgive  me,  Maid  and  Madam,) 
It  makes  me  dream  that  you  are  Eve, 

And  wish  that  I  were  Adam  ! 

Webster,  Daniel,  Birthday  of 

See  "Birthday  of  Daniel  Webster." 
Welcome  to  Chicago  Commercial  Club  (Jan.  14,  1880) 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  1880. 

Welcome   to   Dr.  Benjamin  Apthorp    Gould,  A  (On  his 
Return  from  South  America,  after  fifteen  years  devoted 
to  cataloguing  the  stars  of  the  Southern  Hemisphere) 
Addresses  at  the  Complimentary  Dinner  to  Dr.  Benjamin 

Apthorp  Gould,  May  6,  1885,  pp.  22-24. 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

Welcome  to  the  Grand  Dxike  Alexis.   Music  Hall,  Dec.  9, 
1871  (Sung  to  the   Russian   National  Air  by  the  Chil- 
dren of  the  Public  Schools) 
Programme  of  Exercises  at  the  Musical  Entertainment  in 
Honor  of  his  Imperial  Highness  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis; 
4-page  folder. 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Mentioned,  but  not  printed,  in  His  Imperial  Highness  the 
Grand  Duke  Alexis  in  the  United  States,  etc.  (see  page  8,  supra). 
The  date  is  given  correctly  in  aU  collected  editions  of  the  poems 
prior  to  the  Riverside,  1891,  in  which,  and  in  the  Cambridge  and 
Cabinet  Editions,  it  is  printed  December  6th. 

Welcome  to  the  Nations   (Philadelphia,  July  4,  1876) 

The  Centennial  Liberty  Bell,  by  Jos.  S.  Longshore,  M.  D., 

and  Benjamin  L.  Knowles,  Esq.,  1876,  p.  61. 
His  Royal  Highness  Prince  Oscar  [of  Sweden]  at  the  National 
Celebration  of  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  American 
Independence,  1876,  pp.  65-66. 
Poems.  Household  Edition,  1877. 


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What  I  Have  Come  For  (Written  for   the  Class  Meeting, 
Jan.  9,  1873) 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  1875. 

Additional  Songs  and  Poems  of  the  Class  of  1829,  1868,  pp. 
155-156. 

What  we  all  Think 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  74S-744,  in  the 

**  Autocrat." 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  1858,  pp.  168-170. 
Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862. 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf 

See  "  In  Memory  of  John  Gieenkaf  Whittier"  and  "To  John 
Greenleaf  Whitlier." 

*  "Who  that  can  pluck  the  flower  will  choose  the  weed" 

Life  and  Letters  of  Ohver  Wendell  Hohnes  (Morse),  1896, 
vol.  i,  p.  232. 

"A  gentleman,  famous  for  a  generation  as  'Tom  Apple- 
ton,*  ...  in  a  lottery  at  a  fair  drew  an  album,  of  which  the 
alternate  sheets  bore  prettily  painted  flowers  and  foliage.  He 
passed  it  about  to  Longfellow,  Emerson,  Holmes,  and  the  rest, 
asking  each  to  select  his  page  and  write  something  upon  it.  .  .  . 
Holmes  took  a  page  bearing  a  cluster  of  wild  autiunnal  leaves, 
and  wrote: — 

"  Who  that  can  pluck  the  flower  wfll  choose  the  weed. 
Leave  the  sweet  rose  and  gather  blooms  less  fair  ? 
And  who  my  homely  verse  will  stay  to  read. 
Straying  enchanted  through  this  bright  parterre. 
When  morning's  herald  Itfls  his  purple  bell 
And  spring's  young  violet  wooes  the  wanderer's  eye  ? 
Nay !  let  me  seek  the  fallen  leaves  that  tell 
Of  beggared  winter's  footstep  drawing  nigh; 
There  shall  my  shred  of  song  enshrouded  lie, 
A  leaf  that  dropped  in  memory's  flowery  dell; 
The  breath  of  friendship  stirred  it,  and  it  fell. 
Tinged  with  the  loving  hue  of  Autunm's  fond  farewell. 

"Boston,  Fdmiary  StSt,  1874." 


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Wind-Clouds  and  Star-Drifts,  I-VII 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May-Nov.,  1872,  vol.  29,  pp.  617-618,  742; 

vol.  30,  pp.  107-110,  237-239,  362-363,  436-437,  522-523, 

in  the  "  Poet." 
The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  1872,  pp.  169-171,  201-203, 

230-236,  270-274,  302-306,  334-338,  364-367. 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877. 

Wonderful  One-Hoss  Shay,  The 
See  "The  Deacon's  Masterpiece.** 

Woodlawn  Cemetery 

Memory  and  Hope,  Marian  C.  D.  Silsbee,  editor,  1851. 
See  "  Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  the  Pittsfield  Cemetery.** 

Word  of  Promise,  The    (By  supposition).   An  Hymn  set 
forth  to  be  sung  by  the  Great  Assembly  at  Newtown, 
Mo.  12.  1.  1636 
Services  at  the  Celebration  of  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth 
Anniversary  of  the  Organization  of  the  First  Church  in 
Cambridge,  February  7-14,   1886,   p.   22;    preceded  by 
remarks  by  Dr.  Holmes,  pp.  20-21. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  1891. 

World's  Homage,  The.   To  Harriet  Beeeher  Stowe  on  her 
Seventieth  Birthday  (June  14,  1882) 
Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  1888. 

*  "  Yes,  home  is  sweet!  and  yet  we  needs  must  sigh"  (Read 
by  Prof.  H.  P.  Bowditch  at  the  annual  dinner  of  the  Har- 
vard Club  of  New  York,  Feb.  21,  1882) 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Feb.  23, 1882,  vol.  106, 
p.  187;  also  Dec.  13,  1894  vol.  131,  p.  586. 

The  sonnet  was  printed  on  slips  for  distribution  at  the  din- 
ner. 

The  second  reference  is  to  the  account  of  the  Holmes  Memo- 
rial meeting  of  the  Boston  Medical  Library  Association,  at 
which  Dr.  Bowditch  again  read  the  sonnet,  having  first  told 
the  circumstances  under  which  it  was  written;  he  spoke  of 
it  as  having  never  before  been  printed.  It  there  has  the  title 
"Ahna  Mater.  '* 


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Yes,  home  is  sweet!   and  yet  we  needs  must  sigh, 
Restless  until  our  longing  souls  have  found 
Some  realm  beyond  the  fireside's  narrow  bound 

Where  slippered  ease  and  sleepy  comfort  lie,  — 

Some  fair  ideal  form  that  cannot  die 

By  age  dismantled  and  by  change  uncrowned, 
Else  life  creeps  circling  in  the  self-same  round, 

And  the  low  ceiling  hides  the  lofty  sky. 

Ah,  then  to  thee  our  truant  hearts  return, 
Dear  Mother,  Alma,  Casta  —  spotless,  kind! 
Thy  sacred  walls  a  larger  home  we  find, 

And  still  for  thee  thy  wandering  children  yearn. 

While  with  undying  fires  thine  altars  bum 
Where  all  our  hoHest  memories  rest  enshrined. 

Youth  (Written  for  the  Thirty-First  Anniversary  of  the 
Boston  Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  May  31,  1882) 

Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895. 

Not  in  Riverside  Edition.  The  Boston  Daily  Advertiser  of 
June  1,  1882,  has  an  account  of  this  anniversary  celebration, 
with  the  poem  in  full,  as  well  as  the  witty  Kttle  speech  with 
which  Dr.  Holmes  prefaced  it. 

A  copy  of  the  poem,  in  Dr.  Holmes's  autograph,  brought 
$16.00  at  Henkels's  in  1898. 


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n 

PROSE 

*  Address  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Boston 

Microscopical  Society 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  May  24,  1877,  vol.  96, 
pp.  601-602. 

*  Address  at  the  Inauguration  of  Cornelius  C.  Felton,  LL.  D., 

as  President  of  Harvard  College,  July  19,  1860 
Addresses  at  the  Inauguration,  etc.,  1860  (pamphlet,  8vo), 
pp.  121-124,  132. 

Dr.  Holmes  presided  at  the  dinner  after  the  inauguration,  the 
account  of  which,  with  his  speeches  introducing  the  different 
speakers,  is  printed  on  pp.  121-149  of  the  pamphlet. 

*  Address  before  the  Medical  Library  Association  (Delivered 

at   the  formal  presentation  of   Dr.   Holmes's   medical 
library,  Jan.  29,  1889) 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Feb.  7,  1889,  vol.  120, 
pp.  129-130. 

*  Address  at  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Founda- 

tion of  the  Medical  School  of  Harvard  University,  Oct.  17, 
1883 

The  New  Century  and  the  New  Building  of  the  Harvard 
Medical  School,  1884  (pamphlet,  8vo,  illus.),  pp.  3-35. 

*  After-Breakfast  Talk,  An 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1883,  vol.  51,  pp.  65-75. 

*  After  Our  Hundred  Days 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1888,  vol.  61,  pp.  127-130. 

*  Agassiz*s  Natural  History  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  320-333. 

*  Americanized  European,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1875,  vol.  35,  pp.  75-86. 


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*  Amory,  William,  Memoir  of 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  June  13, 

1889,  2d  series,  vol.  4,  pp.  414-417. 
See  also  p.  215  of  the  same  volume. 

*  Andre,  Major  John,  Life  of  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1871,  vol.  28,  pp.  121-122. 

*  Appleton,  Thomas  Gold 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1884,  vol.  53,  pp.  848-850. 

*  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  The    [No.  I] 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Nov.,  1831,  and 
Feb.,  1832,  vol.  1,  pp.  428-431,  vol.  2,  pp.  134-138. 

These  papers  have  been  reprinted,  but  not  in  any  author- 
ized edition  of  Dr.  Holmes's  works,  and  are  known  to-day  only 
as  explaining  the  mysterious  opening  sentence  of  the  real 
"  Autocrat."  They  may  be  found  in  the  Comhill  Booklet  of 
Feb.,  1901. 

Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1857,  to  Oct.,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  48-57, 

175-184,  312-320,  457-469,  614-625,    734-744,  871-883; 

vol.  2,  pp.  102-111,  234-245,  360-370,  496-506,  619-633. 
As  the  poems  scattered  through  the  "  Autocrat "  have  not  been 
printed  in  any  of  the  collected  editions  in  the  order  in  which  they 
appear  in  that  work,  a  list  of  them  in  that  order  is  here  given. 
Those  which  were  printed  in  the  Atlantic  without  titles  are 
placed  between  brackets. 

[Album  Verses.] 

Latter  Day  Warnings. 

[A  Parting  Health  —  to  J.  L.  Motley.]  * 

Spring  has  Come  —  Intra  Muros. 

A  Good  Time  Going. 

The  Two  Armies. 

Musa. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 

^Estivation. 

Contentment. 

[Prelude.] 

^  This  poem  was  first  printed  in  the  "  Autocrat "  when  it  appeared  in 
book  form. 


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Parson  Turell's  Legacy. 
The  Voiceless. 
[Sun  and  Shadow.] 
.  [Prologue.] 
[Ode  for  a  Social  Meeting.] 
The  Old  Man  Dreams. 
The  Chambered  Nautilus. 
Mare  Rubrum. 
What  we  All  Think. 
The  Last  Blossom. 
The  Living  Temple. 

*  Autocrat,  The,  Gives  a  Breakfast  to  the  Public 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  889-894. 
Contains  the  poem  "Avis."   The  original  ms.  of  the  article, 
14  pp.,  4to,  brought  $145.00  at  the  Wilhamson  Sale,  1904. 

*  Bartlett,  The  Late  Dr.  Elisha 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Aug.  14, 1865,  vol.  53, 
pp.  49-52. 

*  Beecher,  Henry  Ward,  Tribute  to 

The  Beecher  Memorial,  Edward  W.  Bok,  editor,  1887, 
pp.  1-3. 

*  BiGELow,  Henry  J.,  M.  D.,  Memoir  of 

Proceedings  of  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
May  26,  1891,  vol.  26,  pp.  339-351. 

*  Bigelow,  Dr.  Jacob,  Memoir  of 

Proceedings  of  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
May  27,  1879,  vol.  14,  pp.  333-342. 

*  Bigelow,  Dr.  Jacob,  Remarks  on 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Feb.  13, 
1879,  vol.  17,  pp.  40-44. 

Border  Lines  of  Knowledge  in  Some  Provinces  of 
Medical  Science 

[Abstract  in]  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Nov.  14, 
1861,  vol.  65,  pp.  318-319,  under  the  title  "Dr.  Hohnes's 
Introductory  Lecture." 

Medical  Essays,  1883. 


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Bread  and  the  Newspaper 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  34&-352. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlartic,  1864,  pp.  1-23. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volmne  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Brewer,  Gardner,  Tribute  to 

In  Memoriam.    Died  at  Newport,  Sept.  30,  1874,  Gardner 
Brewer,  pp.  8-12. 

*  Brief  Expositions  of  Rational  Medicine   [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  763-764. 

Cinders  from  the  Ashes 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1869,  vol.  23,  pp.  115-123. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Claims  of  Dentistry,  The 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Feb.  29,  1872,  n.  s. 
vol.  9,  pp.  134-141. 

*  Clarke,  Edward  Hammond,  Memorial  Sketch  of 

Visions:  A  Study  of  False  Sight, by  Edward  H.  Clarke, M.D., 

1878,  pp.  xiii-xxii. 
The  same  volume  contains,  on  pp.  vii-xiii,  an  introduction  by 
Dr.  Holmes. 

*  Clarke,  James  Freeman,  Remarks  on 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  June  14, 
1888,  2d  series,  vol.  4,  pp.  144-147. 

Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever,  The 

New  England  Quarterly  Joiu-nal  of  Medicine  and  Surgery, 
April,  1843,  vol.  1,  pp.  503-530. 
-     Medical  Essays,  1883. 

See  also  "Puerperal  Fever  as  a  Private  Pestilence." 
Crime  and  Automatism 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1875,  vol.  35,  pp.  46^-481. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Cry  from  the  Study,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1886,  vol.  57,  pp.  91-98. 
See  "The  New  PortfoKo,"  H. 


[  99  ] 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science 

Medical  Communications  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society,  1860,  pp.  305-348.  On  pp.  345-348,  under  the 
heading  "Notes,"  are  certain  passages  omitted  in  deHvery.^ 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  with 
Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  1861,  pp.  1-50. 

Medical  Essays,  1883,  pp.  173-208. 

*  Dana,  Richard  H.,  Jr.,  Remarks  on 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Jan.  12, 
1882,  vol.  19,  pp.  197-199. 

*  Dante,  Remarks  on   (600th  Anniversary  of  his  birth) 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  May  11, 
1865,  vol.  8,  pp.  277-278. 

*  Davis,  George  T.,  Remarks  on 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Oct.  11, 
1877,  vol.  15,  pp.  310-311. 

*  Debut,  The 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  March,  1832,  vol.  2, 

pp.  225-229.    Signed  O.  W.  H. 
Contains  the  poem,  "I  cannot  say  if  truth  there  be." 

Dedicatory  Address  at  the  Opening  of  the  New 
Building  and  Hall  of  the  Boston  Medical  Li- 
brary Association  (Read  December  3,  1878) 

"^    Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  12, 1878,  vol.  99, 
pp.  745-758. 
See  "Medical  Libraries." 

^  In  the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  7,  1860,  is  the  fol- 
lowing note: — 

"As  the  Address  delivered  by  Dr.  Holmes  last  week  has  been  variously 
and  erroneously  reported  in  some  of  the  public  papers,  the  attention  of  our 
readers  is  directed  to  the  following  note  on  the  subject  from  Dr.  Holmes: 

"Messrs.  Editors,  —  I  beg  leave  to  say  that  I  prepared  an  abstract  of 
my  address  before  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society  for  the  Boston 
JomTial,'and  disclaim  all  responsibility  for  opinions  attributed  to  me  in 
any  other  report  of  the  Address. 

"Yours,  very  truly, 

"O.  W.  Holmes. 
"June  4th,  1860." 


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*  Dental  Cosmos,  The.  A  Monthly  Record  of  Dental  Science 
.  [Review] 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  March  11,  1869,  n.  s. 
vol.  3,  pp.  99-102. 

*  Dr.  Asa  Gray's  Botanical  Series  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  383-384. 

*  Dr.  Holmes  at  the  Festival.  "  A  reply  to  the  charges  which 
various  evangelical  papers  have  brought  against  a  recent 
article  of  his  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  that  it  is  poisoning 
public  opinion  " 

Quarterly  Joiu-nal  of  the  American  Unitarian  Association. 
July,  1859,  vol.  6,  pp.  355-362. 

The  "  article  "  referred  to  is  not  named,  but  the  animadver- 
sions of  the  evangelical  press  were  called  forth  by  certain  pass- 
ages in  the  "  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,*'  notably  in  the 
installment  which  had  recently  appeared  in  the  May  number 
of  the  Atlantic  Monthly. 

*  Doings  of  the  Simbeam 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1863,  vol.  12,  pp.  1-15. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  228-281. 

Edwards,  Jonathan 

International  Review,  July,  1880,  pp.  1-28. 

Sketches  and  Reminiscences  of  the  Radical  Club  of  Chestriut 

St.,  Boston,  1880,  pp.  362-375. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Elliotson's  Principles  and  Practice  of  Medicine  [Review] 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  13, 1843,  vol.  29, 
pp.  369-376. 

Elsie  Venner.  Episode  de  la  Vie  Americaine.  Par  E.-D. 
Forgues 

Revue  des  Deux  Mondes,  15  Juin  and  1  Juillet,  1861,  tomes 

33,  pp.  930-963,  and  34,  pp.  67-100. 
In  this  translation  the  story  is  very  much  abridged.    It  was 
published  in  book  form  in  the  same  year.    See  infra,  p.  178. 


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*  Emerson,  Ralph  Waldo,  Tribute  to 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  May  11, 

1882,  vol.  19,  pp.  303-310. 
Tributes  to  Longfellow  and  Emerson,  1882,  pp.  39-50. 

*  Exotics  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1875,  vol.  35,  pp.  356-360. 

*  Facts  and  Traditions  respecting  the  Existence  of  Indige- 
nous Intermittent  Fever  in  New  England 

Boylston  Prize  Dissertations  for  the  Years  1836  and  1837 
(1838),  pp.  1-132. 

Farewell  Address  to  the  Medical  School  of  Harvard 
University 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  7,  1882,  vol.  107, 

pp.  529-534. 
On  page  546  are  two  letters  from  Dr.  Holmes,  dated  Dec.  1 
and  2,  acknowledging  gifts  from  his  pupils. 
See  "Some  of  my  Early  Teachers." 

*  Great  Instrument,  The   (A  History  of  the  Music  Hall 
Organ) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1863,  vol.  12,  pp.  637-647. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  362-400. 

Guardian  Angel,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.  to  Dec.,  1867,  vol.  19,  pp.  1-17,  129- 
143, 257-271, 385-401, 513-527, 641-654;  vol.  20,  pp.  1-15, 
129-143,  257-274,  385-397,  513-527,  641-658.^ 

The  poem  "The  Triumph  of  Song  "  occurs  in  the  number 
for  Sept.,  1867,  vol.  20,  pp.  264-265. 

*  Hawthorne 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1864,  vol.  14,  pp.  98-101. 

Pansie,  by  Nathaniel  Hawthorne.    His  Last  Literary  Effort 

(London,  Hotten),  1864,  pp.  3-4. 
In   this   very   rare   little   volume   Dr.  Holmes's   article    is 
printed  as  an  introduction. 

*  It  is  worth  noting  that  "The  Guardian  Angel"  occupied  the  place  of 
honor  at  the  head  of  the  table  of  contents  of  the  Atlantic  throughout  its 
course  as  a  serial. 


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*  Hillard,  George  S.,  Remarks  on 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Feb.  13, 
1879,  vol.  17,  pp.  38-40. 

*  Holmes,  Abiel 

Duyckinck's    Cyclopaedia   of    American    Literature,    1856, 
pp.  512-513. 

*  Holmes  Estate,  The 

Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  ii,  pp.  424-426. 

*  Homoeopathic  Domestic  Physician,  The  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1857,  vol.  1,  pp.  250-252. 
See  "  Some  More  Recent  Views,"  etc. 

*  Homoeopathy,  Report  of  a  Committee  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Medical  Society  on 

See  "Report  of  a  Conunittee,"  etc. 
Homoeopathy,  and  its  Kindred  Delusions:  Two  Lec- 
tures delivered  before  the  Boston  Society  for  the  Dijffu- 
sion  of  Useful  Knowledge,  1842 
Currents  and   Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  with 
Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  pp.  51-177  (Special  Preface, 
pp.  53-55).      - 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 

*  How  Far  are  the  External  Means  of  Exploring  the  Condi- 
tion of  the  Internal  Organs  to  be  considered  Useful  and 
Important  in  Medical  Practice  ?  [Boylston  Prize  Disserta- 
tion for  1836] 

Library  of  Practical  Medicine,  vol.  vii,  1836,  pp.  189-288.* 
Boylston  Prize  Dissertations  for  the  Years  1836  and  1837 
(1838),  pp.  245-371.2 

Human  Wheel,  The,  its  Spokes  and  Felloes  [with  cuts] 
Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1863,  vol.  11,  pp.  567-580. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  282-327. 
See  "The  Physiology  of  Walking." 

*  This  volume  contains  the  other  prize  dissertations  of  that  year,  on  the 
same  subject,  by  Drs.  Robert  W.  Haxall  and  Luther  V.  Bell. 

*  Here  entitled,  "  On  the  UtiHty  and  Importance  of  Direct  Exploration 
in  Medical  Practice." 


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Inevitable  Trial,  The  (Oration  delivered  before  the 
Cmr  Authorities  of  Boston,  July  4,  1863) 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

Intermittent  Fever  in  New  England 
See  "Facts  and  Traditions,"  etc. 

*  Introduction 

Huguenots  in  the  Nipmuck  Country  or  Oxford  [Mass.]  prior 

to  1713,  by  George  F.  Daniels,  1880,  pp.  x-xiv. 
The  Introduction  is  in  the  shape  of  a  letter  to  Mr.  Daniels. 

*  Introduction  to  Horatian  Echoes 

Horatian  Echoes  [Translation  of  the  Odes  of  Horace],  by 
John  O.  Sargent,  1893,  pp.  vii-ix. 

"We  began  our  literary  life  together.  Hand  in  hand,  like  the 
Babes  in  the  Wood,  we  ventured  into  the  untried  realm  of  letters: 
he,  a  college  senior  of  twenty;  I,  a  half -trained  graduate  of 
about  the  same  age.  Side  by  side  our  early  productions  appeared 
in  the  same  periodicals." 

See  under  "  The  Collegian,"  infra,  p.  202. 

*  Introduction  to  Typical  Elms,  etc. 

Typical  Elms  and  Other  Trees  of  Massachusetts,  by  Lorin 
L.  Dame,  1890,  pp.  7-10. 

Iris  [From  the  "  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table  "] 

Little  Classics,  Rossiter  Johnson,  editor,  1875,  vol.  vii,  pp. 
8-82. 

*  Irving,  Washington,  Remarks  on  the  Death  of 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Dec.  15, 
1859,  vol.  4,  pp.  418-422. 

*  Jackson,  Dr.  James.    A  Biographical  Sketch 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Sept.  5,  1867,  vol.  77, 
pp.  108-109. 

The  original  manuscript  of  this  sketch,  12  pp.,  4to,  was  pre- 
sented by  Dr.  Hohnes  to  the  Boston  Medical  Library  Asso- 
ciation, May  1,  1876. 


[  104  ]    , 

*  Jackson's  (Dr.    James)   Letters  to  a  Young  Man  (just 
entering  upon  practice)  [Review] 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  4,  1855,  vol.  53, 
pp.  197-206. 

*  Leyden  in  the  Time  of  the  Puritans,  Remarks  on  (based 
on  certain  passages  in  Scaligerana) 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  June  11, 
1874,  vol.  13,  pp.  315-317. 

*  Light  of  Asia,  The  [Review  of  Sir  Edwin  Arnold's  poem] 

International  Review,  Oct.,  1879,  pp.  345-372. 

*  Livermore,  George,  Tribute  to  the  Memory  of 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Sept. 
14,  1865,  vol.  8,  pp.  456-458. 

Tribute  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  to  the  Mem- 
ory of  G.  L.,  1866,  pp.  17-18. 

*  Long  and  Interesting  Friendship,  A 

Cambridge  [Mass.]  Tribune,  Feb.  20, 1892.  Lowell  Memorial 
Number. 

*  Longfellow,  Henry  W.,  Tribute  to 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  April 

13,  1882,  vol.  19,  pp.  269-275. 
Tributes  to  Longfellow  and  Emerson,  1882,  pp.  13-22. 

♦Lotus  Club,  Address  at  Dinner  of,  April  15,  1883 

A  Brief  History  of  the  Lotus  Club,  by  John  Elderkin  [c.  1895], 
pp.  61-64. 

*Love  (Review) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1859,  vol.  4,  pp.  391-393. 
Lowell,  James  Russell 

See  "  A  Long  and  Interesting  Friendship." 

*  Lowell,  Hon.  John,  Speech  at  Dinner  given  to.  May  23, 1884 

Reception  and  Dinner  to  Hon.  John  Lowell  (pamphlet,  8vo), 

1885,  pp.  29-32. 
"In  respectfully  proposing  the  health  of  his  great-great- 
grandmother,  I  am  speaking  of  one  whom  few,  if  any,  of  you 


[  105  ] 

can  remember.  Yet  her  face  is  as  familiar  to  me  as  that  of  any 
member  of  my  own  household.  She  looks  upon  me  as  I  sit  at 
my  writing-table;  she  does  not  smile;  she  does  not  speak;  even 
the  green  parrot  on  her  hand  has  never  opened  his  beak;  but 
there  she  is,  calm,  unchanging,  in  her  immortal  youth,  as  when 
the  untutored  artist  fixed  her  features  on  the  canvas.  To  think 
that  one  little  word  from  the  hps  of  Dorothy  Quincy,  your  great- 
great-grandmother,  my  great-great-grandmother,  decided  the 
question  whether  you  and  I  should  be  here  to-night,  in  fact 
whether  we  should  be  anywhere  at  all,  or  remain  two  bodiless 
dreams  of  nature!  But  it  was  Dorothy  Quincy's  yes  or  no  to 
Edward  Jackson  which  was  to  settle  that  important  matter  — 
important  to  both  of  us,  certainly  —  yes,  your  Honor;  and  I 
can  say  truly,  as  I  look  to  you  and  remember  yom:  career, 
important  to  this  and  the  whole  American  community.  ..." 
Dr.  H.  then  recited  portions  of  "Dorothy  Q.,"  changing  *'I  " 
to  "we,"  "my"  to  "our,"  and,  in  one  place,  "me"  to  "we." 

*  May  and  October 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  June,  1832,  vol.  2, 
pp.  449-451. 

Mechanism  in  Thought  and  Morals 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Mechanism  of  Vital  Actions  (Review  of  Draper's  Human 
Physiology,  Statical  and  Dynamical;  Carpenter's  Mutual 
Relations  of  the  Vital  and  Physical  Forces;  Grove's 
Correlation  of  Physical  Forces;  Metcalfe's  Caloric:  its 
Mechanical,  Chemical,  and  Vital  Agencies  in  the  Phe- 
nomena of  Nature) 

North  American  Review,  July,  1857,  vol.  75,  pp.  39-77. 
Essays  from  the  North  American  Review,  Allen  Thorndike 
Rice,  editor,  1879,  pp.  433-482. 

*  Medical  Directions,  written  for  Governor  Winthrop 
by  Ed.  Stafford  of  London,  in  1643 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Feb.  13, 

1862,  vol.  5,  pp.  379-399. 
"Dr.  Holmes  communicated  the  following  paper,  comment- 
ing upon  and  illustrating  a  manuscript  written  by  an  eminent 


t  106  ]    . 

physician  in  England,  and  found  in  the  collection  of  Winthrop 
Papers  in  the  possession  of  the  President  of  this  Society." 

*  Medical  Highways  and  By-ways 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Joiumal,  June  1,  1882,  vol.  106, 

pp.  505-513. 
Medical  Times  and  Gazette  [London],  Sept.  16,  1882,  vol.  2 

of  that  year,  pp.  346-352. 

Medical  Libraries.     Dedicatory  Address  at  the  Opening 
of  the  New  Building  and  Hall  of  the  Boston  Medical 
Library  Association 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  12,  1878,  vol.  99, 

pp.  745-758. 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 
See  "  Dedicatory  Address,"  etc. 

Medical  Profession  in  Massachusetts,  The 

Lectures  dehvered  in  a  Course  before  the  Lowell  Institute  in 

Boston,  etc.,  1869,  pp.  257-301. 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 

*  Medical  School,  The 

Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  i,  pp.  239-251. 

*  Medicine  in  Boston.    Additional  Memoranda  * 

Memorial  History  of  Boston,  etc.  (1881),  vol.  iv,  pp.  549-570. 

*  Microscopic  Preparations 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  May  25,  1853,  vol.  48, 
pp.  337-340. 

*  Minister  Plenipotentiary,  The  [Henry  Ward  Beecher] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1864,  vol.  3,  pp.  106-112. 

*  Morse,  Isaac  E.,  Memorial  Notice  of 

Boston  Daily  Advertiser,  March  5,  1866. 

Mr.  Morse  was  a  member  of  the  Class  of  '29,  from  the  South ; 
he  served  in  the  Confederate  army.  See  a  letter  to  his  son  in 
Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of  O.  W.  H.,  vol.  i,  pp.  310-312. 

*  The  main  article  on  this  subject  was  written  by  Dr.  Samuel  A.  Green. 


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*  Mothers  and  Infants,  Nurses  and  Nursing  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1859,  vol.  3,  p.  645. 

*  Motley,  John  Lothrop,  Memoir  of 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Dec.  12, 
1878,  vol.  16,  pp.  404-473. 

On  p.  403  is  the  following  note:  **Dr.  Holmes,  through  Mr. 
Winthrop,  announced  that  the  Memoir  of  John  Lothrop  Motley, 
which  he  had  been  appointed  to  prepare,  would  be  published 
immediately,  by  Messrs.  Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co.,  as  had  been 
agreed  by  the  committee  to  whom  their  application  for  this  privi- 
lege, made  in  June  last,  was  referred.  As  the  memoir  had  grown 
to  a  size  greater  than  was  expected  at  first.  Dr.  Holmes  had 
revised  the  original  draft,  and  had  made  numerous  omissions 
so  as  to  bring  it  within  limits  suited  to  publication  in  the  Pro- 
ceedings.'* 

*  Motley,  John  Lothrop,  Tribute  to 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Jime 

14,  1877,  vol.  15,  pp.  292-297. 
Tribute  of    the   Massachusetts    Historical    Society  to    the 

Memory  of  Edmund  Quincy  and  John  Lothrop  Motley, 

1877,  pp.  16-23. 

My  Hunt  after  "  the  Captain  " 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1862,  vol.  10,  pp.  738-764. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  24-123. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 
Favorite  Poems,  and  My  Hunt  after  the  Captain,  1884. 
My  Hunt  after  the  Captain,  and  Other  Papers,  1887. 

Neuralgia,  On  the  Nature  and  Treatment  of 

See  "On  the  Nature,"  etc. 

New  Portfolio,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.-Dec,  1885,  vol.  55,   pp.    105-111, 
248-258,  403-414,  523-534,  678-691,  721-733;    vol.    56, 
pp.  1-13, 145-157,  353-364,  522-533,  694-706,  836-847. 
PubUshed   under  the  title,   "A   Mortal  Antipathy  —  First 
Opening  of  the  New  Portfolio." 

In  the  number  for  May,  1885,  is  the  poem  "The  Old  Song," 
more  familiarly  known  as  "The  Lyre  of  Anacreon." 


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*  New  Portfolio,  The,  II 

After  the  completion  of  the  publication  in  serial  form  of  the 
novel  printed  in  the  Atlantic  under  the  above  title  (see  above), 
Dr.  Holmes  contributed  to  the  same  magazine,  in  January, 
March,  and  July,  1886,  three  articles  imder  the  same  general 
title,  but  having  no  connection  with  the  novel  or  with  one 
another.  See  "A  Cry  from  the  Study,"  "Two  'Occasional' 
Poems  with  an  Introduction,"  and  "A  Prospective  Visit." 

*  New  Stand  for  che  Compound  Microscope 

Proceedings  of  the  Department  of  iVIicroscopy  of  the  Boston 

Society  of  Natural  History,  Aug.,  1857. 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  10,  1857,  vol.  52, 

pp.  376-380. 

*  Old  Books 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Jan.,  1832,  vol.  2, 
pp.  46-49. 

*  On  the  Nature  and  Treatment  of  Neuralgia 

Boylston  Prize  Dissertations  for  the  Years  1836  and  1837 
(1838),  pp.  133-243. 

*  On  the  Use  of  Direct  Light  in  Microscopic  Researches 

Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
May  4,  1852,  vol.  2,  pp.  326-332. 

*  On  the  Utility  and  Importance  of  Direct  Exploration  in 
Medical  Practice 

Boylston  Prize  Dissertations  for  the  Years  1836  and  1837 
(1838),  pp.  245-371. 

See  "How  Far  are  the  External  Means  of  Exploring,"  etc. 

*  Oration  before  the  New  England  Society  of  New 
York,  at  their  semi-centennial  anniversary,  1855 

Semi-Centennial  Celebration  of  the  New  England  Society  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  1856,  pp.  3^6. 

The  New  England  Society  Orations.  Addresses,  Sermons 
and  Poems  delivered  before  the  New  England  Society  in 
the  City  of  New  York,  1820-1855;  Cephas  and  Evehne 
Wamer  Brainerd,  editors,  1901,  vol.  ii,  pp.  271-302. 


[  109  ] 

In  this  volume  the  oration  is  introduced  by  the  following  note : 
"This  year  the  society  returned  to  its  early  custom,  and  a 
poem  formed  a  part  of  the  program.  .  .  .  The  verses  of  Dr. 
Pierpont,  though  he  was  then  over  seventy  years  of  age,  would 
have  been  quoted  with  enthusiasm  by  the  youngest  and  wildest 
aboHtionist,  while  Dr.  Holmes,  his  junior  by  thirty  years,  stood 
frankly  for  the  most  conservative  element  of  the  North.  One 
sentiment  of  the  orator  in  regard  to  slavery  was  met  with  a  hiss, 
to  which  incident  Dr.  Pierpont  referred  at  the  dinner  the  follow- 
ing evening.  *I  have  prepared,*  he  said,  'some  Hues,  should  it 
ever  occur  again,  which  would  run  somewhat  in  the  following 
fashion : 

". '  Our  brother  Holmes's  gadfly  was  a  thing 
To  lo  known  by  its  tormenting  sting. 
The  noisome  insect  still  is  known  by  this. 
But  geese  and  serpents  by  their  harmless  hiss.* 

"  Dr.  Holmes,  rising,  instantly  repHed: 

"  '  Well  said,  my  trusty  brother,  bravely  done; 

Sit  down,  good  neighbor,  now  I  owe  you  one!*  ** 

*  Our  Battle-Laureate  (H.  H.  Brownell) 

Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1865,  vol.  15,  pp.  589-591. 

Otjk  Hundred  Days  in  Europe 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March  to  Oct.,  1887,  vol.  59,  pp.  343-356, 

533-545,  638-649,  832-842;  vol.  60,  pp.  116-126,  213-225, 

289-299,  462-474. 

A  small  part  of  the  article  entitled  "  The  New  Portfolio.   A 

Prospective  Visit,**  published  in  the  Atlantic  for   July,  1886, 

was  used  as  an  introductory  chapter  when  **  Our  Hundred  Days  " 

appeared  in  book  form. 

*  Our  Progressive  Independence 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1864,  vol.  13,  pp.  497-512. 

Over  the  Teacups 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1888,  Jan.  to  Nov.,  1890,  vol.  61, 
pp.  323-328;  vol.  65,  pp.  111-121,  232-243,  402-412,  549- 
560,  691-703,  829-841;  vol.  66,  pp.  92-105,  236-248,  387- 
400,  535-547,  660-671. 


[  110  ]  ., 

The  poems  occur  in  the  Atlantic  in  this  order: 
To  the  Eleven  Ladies,  etc. 
After  the  Curfew. 

The  Peau  de  Chagrin  of  State  Street. 
Cacoethes  Scribendi. 
The  Rose  and  the  Fern. 
I  Like  You  and  I  Love  You. 
La  Maison  d'Or. 
Too  Young  for  Love. 
The  Broomstick  Train. 
Tartarus. 

At  the  Turn  of  the  Road. 
Livita  Minerva. 

*Partheiiia  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1858,  vol.  1,  pp.  509-510. 

Physiology  of  Versification,  The.    Harmonies  of  Organic 
and  Animal  Life 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Jan.  7,  1875,  vol.  92, 

pp.  6-9. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

Physiology  of  Walking,  The 

Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

My  Hunt  after  the  Captain,  and  Other  Papers,  1888. 

See  "  The  Human  Wheel,  its  Spokes  and  Felloes." 

*  Pillow-Smoothing  Authors 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1883,  vol.  51,  pp.  457-464. 
Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.  to  Dec,  1872,  vol.  29,  pp.  90-104,  224- 
236,  338-349,  485-496,  606-618,  731-742;  vol.  30,  pp.  98- 
110,  225-239,  352-363,  426-437,  513-526,  720-734. 
The  poems  occur  in  the  Atlantic  in  this  order: 
Homesick  in  Heaven. 
Fantasia. 
Aunt  Tabitha. 
J[oseph]  A[ngier]. 

Wind  Clouds  and  Star-Drifts,  I  to  VH. 
Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series. 


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*  Poet,  to  the  Children,  The  (Letter  to  the  School  Children 
of  Cincinnati,  on  their  celebration  of  his  71st  Birthday) 

Holmes  Leaflets,  1881,  p.  11. 

*  Position  and  Prospects  of  the  Medical  Student, 
The 

Currents   and   Counter-Currents   in   Medical   Science,  with 
Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  1861. 

Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.  to  Dec,  1859,  vol.  3,  pp.  85-96,  232- 

241,  350-361,  492-503,  609-620,  760-770  ;  vol.  4,  pp.  119- 

128,  232-243,  369-379,  500-511,  622-634,  751-766. 
The  poems  occur  in  the  Atlantic  in  this  order : 

De  Sauty. 

The  Boys. 

The  Opening  of  the  Piano. 

[At  a  Birthday  Festival  —  To  J.  R.  Lowell.]  ^ 

The  Crooked  Footpath. 

A  Mother's  Secret. 

Robinson  of  Leyden. 

Saint  Anthony  the  Reformer  —  His  Temptation. 

Midsummer. 

Iris,  Her  Book. 

Under  the  Violets. 

Hymn  of  Trust. 

A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 
The  "  Story  of  Iris,**  which  is  told  piecemeal,  so  to  speak, 
in  the  "  Professor,"  has  been  put  together  and  published  sepa- 
rately.    See  p.  171,  injra. 

Professor's  Story,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1860,  to  April,  1861,  vol.  5,  pp.  88-99, 

222-235,   347-357,   470-486,    602-614,    735-746;   vol.    6, 

pp.  95-105,  215-227,  362-373,  482-492,  613-631,  729-739; 

vol.  7,  pp.  75-85,  214-226,  272-283,  395-415. 

PubKshed  in  book  form,  at  first  in  two  volumes,  in  1861, 

under  the  title  of  "Elsie  Venner.** 

^  Without  title  in  the  Atlantic  and  in  the  various  editions  of  the 
"  Professor." 


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*  Prospective  Visit,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1886,  vol.  58,  pp.  1-16. 

A  small  portion  of  this  article  —  roughly  speaking,  the  first 
and  last  three  pages  —  was  afterward  printed  as  an  intro- 
ductory chapter  to  Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe,  1887; 
there  are  some  changes,  however,  even  in  those  passages 
which  were  used  in  the  volume. 

See  "The  New  Portfoho,"  n. 

*  Public  Parks,  Speech  on  the  subject  of 

Parks  for  the  People  (8vo  pamphlet),  1876,  pp.  20-25. 

Puerperal  Fever  as  a  Private  Pestilence 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  with 
Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  1861. 

This  essay  was  printed  originally  (1843)  under  the  title  "The 
Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever,"  and  that  title  was  restored 
when  it  was  pubhshed  in  Medical  Essays,  1883. 

Pulpit  and  the  Pew,  The 

North  American  Review,  Feb.,  1881,  vol.  132,  pp.  117-138. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Reflex  Vision 

Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
Feb.  14,  1860,  vol.  4,  pp.  373-375. 

*  Reply  of  Dr.  Holmes  on  the  Presentation  of  the  Portrait 
of  Dr.  J.  B.  S.  Jackson  to  the  Boston  Medical  Library 
Association  [May  23,  1881] 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  16, 1881,  vol.  104, 
pp.  560-561. 

♦Report  of  a  Committee  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society  on  Homoeopathy 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  March  5, 1851,  vol.  44, 

pp.  97-100. 
The  report  is  signed  by  George  Hayward,  John  B.  S.  Jackson, 
and  Dr.  Holmes. 


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Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Plowmg-Match  at  the 
Cattle-Show  of  the  Berkshire  Agricultural  Society,  1849 

•     The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  129-133; 
closing  with  the  poem,  "The  Ploughman"  (here  spelled 
Plowman). 
Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895,  pp.  339-340,  Appendix. 

*  Response  of  Dr.  Holmes  at  the  banquet  to  his  honour  by 
the  Liverpool  Philomathic  Society,  1886 

Response  to  the  Toast  "The  President  of  the  United  States," 
together  with  the  response  of  the  Guest  of  the  Evening, 
Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  at  the  banquet  to  his  honour 
by  the  Liverpool  Philomathic  Society,  August  20th,  1886, 
pp.  11-13.1 

Scholastic  and  Bedside  Teaching.  An  Introductory  Lecture 
delivered  before  the  Medical  Class  of  Harvard  University, 
Nov.  6,  1867 

Medical  Essays,  1883. 

See  "  Teaching  from  the  Chair  and  at  the  Bedside." 

*  Seasons,  The.  By  the  "  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table  " 

The  Atlantic  Almanac,  1868,  edited  by  OUver  Wendell 
Holmes  and  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  pp.  2-13. 

*  Sex  in  Education  [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1873,  vol.  32,  pp.  737-740. 

*  Some  More  Recent  Views  on  Homoeopathy.    A  Notice  of 

the  Homoeopathic  Domestic  Physician 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1857,  vol.  1,  pp.  250-252;  under  the 
title  "The  Homoeopathic  Domestic  Physician." 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  with 
Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  1861. 

*  This  is  a  12mo  pamphlet  of  16  unnumbered  pages,  with  a  decorative 
front  cover;  the  collation  is  as  follows:  1-2,  blank;  3,  dedication,  signed 
H[arold]  M[arsh]  S[ewall],  and  dated  Liverpool,  England,  Sept.  1,  1866.  — 
"For  Private  Circulation;"  4-6,  blank;  7-9,  response  by  Harold  Marsh 
Sewall  to  the  above-named  toast ;  10,  blank ;  1 1-13,  response  of  Dr.  Holmes 
to  the  toast  to  himself;  14,  blank;  15,  verse;  16,  blank. 


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Some   of  my  Early  Teachers.      Dr.   Holmes's    Farewell 
Address  to  the  Medical  School 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 
See  "  Farewell  Address,"  etc. 

*  Speech  at  the  Amiual    Dimier  of    the  Massachusetts 
Medical  Society,  May,  1856 

Speeches  of  Drs.  Thompson,  James  Jackson,  John  Homans, 
O.  W.  Holmes,  S.  Dm-kee,  and  H.  W.  Williams,  in  response 
to  sentiments  offered  at  the  Annual  Dinner,  etc.,  1856, 
pp.  9-11. 

*  Speech  at  the  Dimier  of  the  Alumni  of  Harvard  College, 
Nov.,  1886 

Record  of  the  Commemoration,  November  fifth  to  eighth, 
1886,  etc.  (1887),  pp.  302-304. 

*  Speech  at  the  First  Dinner  of  the  Phillips  Academy  Aliunni 
Association,  March  24,  1886 

Speeches  at  the  First  Dinner,  etc.,  1886,  pp.  21-26.  "Bill  and 
Joe"  is  introduced  on  pp.  23-24. 

"Brethren  of  the  Alumni:  I  had  a  call  this  morning  from 
that  most  formidable  of  visitors,  the  reporter,  who  asked  me  for 
the  poem  I  was  going  to  read  to-night,  which  poem  was  a  fiction 
of  his  own  powerful  imagination.  It  is  sixty-one  years  since  I 
read  my  first  verses  at  Phillips  Academy.  It  is  eight  years  since 
I  read  a  long  poem  on  the  celebration  of  the  one  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  institution.  .  .  . 

"  I  am  going  to  read  you  a  poem,  written  for  another  occasion, 
but  surely  it  never  could  be  read  more  appropriately  than  it  is  now. 
As  the  gray  heads  come  together  the  young  ones  will  sympathize 
with  them,  but  the  gray  heads  as  they  meet  their  old  companions 
feel  that  all  their  differences  of  situation,  of  history,  of  condition, 
are  abolished,  and  this  poem  embodies  that  feehng.  Will  you 
hsten  to  '  Bill  and  Joe,'  to  two  gray-headed  old  men  who  meet, 
one,  perhaps,  high  in  position,  the  other  humble,  strugghng  to 
forget  all  their  differences,  and  strip  off  everything,  and  call 
each  other  by  the  old  names,  the  old  short  names  ?  There  are 
not  more  than  half  a  dozen  people  now  Hving,  out  of  my  own 
family,  that  call  me  by  my  first  name.  Queen  Victoria  said, 
*  There  is  nobody  left  to  call  me  "Vic."'    It  is  a  dreadful  loss 


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when  you  lose  your  *Bill,'  and  become  the  Honorable  So-and- 
So.   .  .  . 

**  I  was  subjected  to  the  severest  castigation  known,  I  believe, 
in  the  annals  of  punishment  in  the  institution,  such  as  made  a 
sensation  among  all  the  delicate  females  of  the  vicinity,  and 
caused  yoimg  men  to  utter  violent  threats,  and  was,  in  fact,  al- 
most the  occasion  of  a  riot.  It  was  an  unfortunate  display  of 
temper  on  the  part  of  one  of  the  instructors.  [Laughter  and 
applause.]  Forty  years  afterward  I  heard  a  knock  at  my  study 
door,  and  an  old,  bending  man  came  in  and  looked  me  in  the 
eyes,  and  I  in  his.  I  knew  what  he  came  for.  [Laughter.]  He 
knew,  too  well,  what  he  came  for.  [Renewed  laughter.]  But  we 
made  the  usual  meteorological  remarks  [great  laughter]  and 
we  sat  down,  I  with  a  cold  and  calm  hospitality;  he,  evidently, 
laboring  under  some  inward  embarrassment.  Presently  it  came 
out,  the  confession  and  the  pardon  came  out,  and  after  that  we 
were,  though  separated  —  and  he  is  now  dead  or  I  would  not 
mention  it  —  we  were  good  friends,  so  far  as  friendship  could 
base  itself  upon  such  a  foundation."    [Great  laughter.]  * 

*  Speech  at  the  Graduating  Exercises  of  the  Pittsfield  Young 
Ladies'  Institute,  1849 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  110-111 ; 
concluding  with  the  previously  unpublished  poem,  "A 
Vision  of  Life." 

*  Speech  at  the  "  Jubilee  Dinner  "  at  Pittsfield,  Aug.  23, 
1844 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills  (J.  E.  A.  Smith),  1895,  pp.  65-66; 
followed  by  the  poem,  "Come  back  to  your  mother,  ye 
children,  for  shame."  ("  Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire 
Festival.") 

*  Stereoscope  and  the  Stereograph,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1859,  vol.  3,  pp.  738-748. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  124-165. 

*  Storer,  Dr.  David  Humphrey,  Tribute  to 

Memorial  Meeting  of  the  Boston  Society  of  Natural  His- 
tory, Dec.  16,  1891,  pp.  353-354. 


[  116  y 

*  Sun-Painting  and  Sun-Sculpture 

Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  13-29. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  166-227. 

Talk  concerning  the  Human  Body  and  its  Management. 
By  the  Professor  at  the  Breakfast -Table 
The  Atlantic  Ahnanac,  1869,  edited  by  Donald  G.  Mitchell. 

pp.  47-58. 
Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

*  Taylor,  Bayard,  Tribute  to  the  Memory  of 

See  Appendix,  p.  310,  infra. 

*  Two  "  Occasional  "  Poems  with  an  Introduction 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1886,  vol.  57,  pp.  369-374. 

See  "The  New  Portfoho,"  H.  The  poems  are  "The  Old 
Tune.  Thirty-Sixth  Variation "  and  "To  Frederick  Henry 
Hedge." 

*  Undergraduate,  The   [Review] 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1860,  vol.  5,  pp.  382-383. 

Valedictory  Address  to  the  Graduating  Class    of 
Bellevue  Hospital  College,  March  2,  1871 
New  York  Medical  Journal,  April,  1871,  vol.  13,  pp.  420-440. 
See  "The  Young  Practitioner." 

*  Valedictory  Address  to  the  Medical  Graduates 
OF  Harvard  University,  1858 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  March  25, 1858,  vol.  58, 

pp.  149-159. 
Currents  and    Counter-Currents  in  Medical   Science,    with 

Other  Addresses  and  Essays,  1861. 

*  Visit  to  the  Asylum  for  Aged  and  Decayed  Punsters,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1861,  vol.  7,  pp.  113-117. 
Sounding  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  348-361. 

*  Visit  to  the  Autocrat's  Landlady,  A 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1858,  vol.  2,  pp.  738-744. 
Soundings  from  the  Atlantic,  1864,  pp.  328-347. 
Contains  the  poem  "The  Old  Man  of  the  Sea  —  A  Night- 
mare Dream  by  DayUght."    See  p.  52,  supra. 


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*  Warren,  Dr.  John  Collins,  Tribute  to 

The  Life  of  John  Collins  Warren,  M.D.,  by  Edward  Warren, 
1860,  vol.  ii,  pp.  296-302. 

*  Warren,  Dr.  J.  Mason,  Remarks  on  the  Character  of 

Boston  Medical  and  Sm-gical  Journal,  Aug.  22, 1867,  vol.  77, 
pp.  66-68. 

*  Week  of  Frailty,  A 

[Buckingham's]  New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1831,  vol.  1, 
pp.  316-320. 

Signed  O.  W.  H.  Contains  two  poems  without  title,  one  of 
which  has  had  its  place  in  all  collected  editions  under  the  title 
"L*Inconnue;"  the  other,  which  has  never  been  reprinted, 
begins:   "Hast  thou  a  look  for  me,  love.^" 

*  Wormwood  Cordial  of  History,  The 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Oct.,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  507-512. 

*  Wyman,  Professor  Jeffries 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1874,  vol.  34,  pp.  611-623. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  April  15, 
1875,  vol.  14,  pp.  4-24. 

A  copy  of  this  last-named  pamphlet  (which  contains  also  the 
poem  "Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle"),  with  an 
autograph  letter  of  Dr.  Holmes  inserted,  was  sold  at  the  Arnold 
Sale,  1901,  for  $10.00;  another  at  the  Pyser  Sale,  1906,  for  $3.00. 

Young  Practitioner,  The.    A  Valedictory  Address  delivered 
to  the  Graduating  Class  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  College, 
March  2,  1871 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 


CHRONOLOGICAL  LIST  OF  SINGLE 
PUBLICATIONS 

I 

POETRY 

The  first  entry  in  this  list  is  placed  here,  although  it  contains 
poems  by  other  hands  than  Dr.  Holmes's,  because  it  may  pro- 
perly be  regarded  as  the  first  collected  edition  of  his  poems.  In  like 
manner  the  various  issues  of  the  Songs  of  the  Class  of  '29  are 
included  in  this  division ;  although  they  contain  the  work  of  sev- 
eral other  members  of  the  Class,  they  are  generally,  and  not 
unnaturally,  regarded  as  special  collections  of  Dr.  Holmes's  poems. 
The  magazines  in  which  his  earliest  productions  were  printed  are 
placed,  for  convenience,  if  not  most  appropriately,  under  the 
heading  Selections  and  Compilations. 

THE   HARBINGER 

The  Harbinger:  |  A  |  May-Gift.  |  Boston:  |  Car- 
ter, Hendee  and  Co.  |  mdcccxxxiii. 
8vo,  pp.  vi,  96. 

Dedicated  "  To  the  Ladies  who  have  so  kindly  aided  the 
New  England  Institution  for  the  Blind." 

A  collection  of  poems  divided  into  three  parts,  viz. :  Part  I, 
by  Park  Benjamin,  pp.  1-30;  Part  H,  by  Ohver  Wendell  Holmes, 
pp.  31-61;  Part  HI,  by  John  O.  Sargent,  pp.  63-96.  The 
authors'  names  do  not  appear. 

Part  n  contains:  — 
The  Dying  Seneca. 
*  The  Departure. 
The  Last  Leaf. 
The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 
From  a  Bachelor's  Private  Journal. 
Domestic  Thoughts. 


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lines  by  a  Very  Interesting  Young  Man. 

My  Aunt. 

The  Dilemma. 

"  Is  thy  Name  Mary,  Maiden  Fair  "  (L'Inconnue). 

*  The  Two  Shadows. 

Thoughts  in  Dejection  (The  Poet's  Lot). 

To  an  Insect. 

The  Toadstool. 

Evening. 

Moonshine. 

Stanzas. 
Of  these  seventeen  poems,  all  save  the  first  —  "  The 
Dying  Seneca" — had  previously  appeared  in  the  Colle- 
gian,   the   Amateur,    or   Buckingham's   New   England 
Magazine. 

POEMS,   1836 

Poems.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  Boston:  | 
Otis,  Broader s,  and  Compav.y.  \  m  dccc  xxxvi. 
8vo,  pp.  xvi,  164.  The  collation  is  as  follows: 
i,  half-title;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  copyright, 
and  imprint  (Cambridge:  Printed  by  Folsom, 
Wells,  and  Thurston) ;  v-xii,  preface ;  xiii-xiv, 
contents;  xv,  half-title  ("Poetry:  a  Metrical 
Essay");  xvi,  blank;  1,  dedication  (To  Charles 
Wentworth  Upham  the  following  Metrical 
Essay  is  affectionately  inscribed);  2,  blank; 
3-39,  "Poetry;"  40,  blank;  41-44,  notes  to 
"Poetry;"  45,  half-title  (Lyrics);  46,  blank; 
47-163,  lyrics;  164,  colophon  (Cambridge: 
Folsom,  Wells,  and  Thurston). 

Some  copies  have  on  the  title-page,  just  above  the  date, 
the  additional  imprint:  "New  York:  |  George  Dearborn 
and  Company." 

On  pp.  16-20  is  printed  (without  separate  title)  "The 
Cambridge  Churchyard,"  and  on  pp.  24-25  (likewise 


[  no  ]  ., 

without  title),  "  Old  Ironsides."    In  the  contents,  these 
familiar  titles  appear  as  sub-titles  under  "Poetry." 
The  Preface  is  as  follows:  — 

As  the  poem  which  stands  at  the  head  of  this  collection  was 
received  kindly  enough  to  warrant  its  publication,  I  have 
availed  myself  of  this  occasion  as  an  apology  for  offering  a  Httle 
book  to  the  public.  Among  the  poems  which  it  contains  are 
several,  which  the  wishes  of  others  rather  than  my  own  have 
led  me  to  admic.  Besides,  having  written  comparatively  httle, 
and  nothing  of  late  years,  imtil  within  a  few  months,  I  coidd 
ill  afford  to  be  over  nice  in  my  selection,  imless  I  were  wiUing 
to  reduce  my  volume  to  dimensions  odious  alike  to  the  self-love 
of  authors  and  the  cupidity  of  booksellers.  If  the  good-natured 
reader,  then,  should  find  some  pages  a  Httle  overdull,  or  over- 
extravagant,  let  him  take  it  for  granted,  that  they  were  reluct- 
antly admitted  by  the  author  in  consideration  of  the  exigencies 
of  the  pubhsher. 

The  first  poem  in  the  collection  being  somewhat  discursive, 
I  will  point  out,  in  a  few  words,  its  scope  and  connexion.  Its 
object  is  to  express  some  general  truths  on  the  sources  and  the 
machinery  of  Poetry;  to  sketch  some  changes  which  may  be 
supposed  to  have  taken  place  in  its  history,  constituting  four 
grand  eras;  and  to  point  out  some  less  obvious  manifestations 
of  the  poetic  principle.  The  stages  assigned  to  the  progress 
of  poetry  are  as  follow:  — 

I.  The  period  of  Pastoral  and  Descriptive  Poetry;  which 
allowed  a  digression  upon  Rome,  and  the  introduction  of  a 
descriptive  lyric.  ^ 

II.  The  period  of  Martial  Poetry.  At  the  close  of  this  division 
are  some  remarks  on  our  want  of  a  national  song,  and  an  attempt 
is  made  to  enhven  the  poem  by  introducing  a  lyric  ^  which  deals 
in  martial  images  and  language,  although  written  only  for  an 
occasional  purpose. 

III.  The  Epic  or  Historic  period  of  Poetry.  Under  this 
division  of  the  subject,  the  supposed  necessity  of  an  American 
"IHad"  was  naturally  enough  touched  upon. 

rV.  The  period  of  Dramatic  Poetry,  or  that  which  analyzes, 
and  traces  from  their  origin,  the  passions  excited  by  certain 
combinations  of  circumstances.     As  this  seemed  the  highest 

^  "The  Cambridge  Churchyard."  ^  ..Qld  Ironsides." 


[121] 

reach  of  poetical  art,  so  it  constitutes  the  last  of  my  supposed 
epochs. 

The  remarks  contained  in  the  last  division  relate  to  some  of 
the  different  forms  in  which  poetry  has  manifested  itself,  and  to 
a  pseudo-poetical  race  of  invalids,  whose  melanchohc  notions 
are  due,  much  oftener  than  is  supposed,  to  the  existence  of 
pulmonary  disease,  frequently  attributed  to  the  morbid  state 
of  mind  of  which  it  is  principally  the  cause.  The  allusions 
introduced  at  the  close  will  carry  their  own  explanation  to  all 
for  whom  they  were  intended.  I  have  thus  given  a  general 
analysis  of  a  poem  which,  being  written  for  public  deUvery, 
required  more  variety  than  is  commonly  demanded  in  metrical 
essays. 

The  shorter  pieces  are  arranged  mainly  with  reference  to  the 
dignity  of  their  subjects.  A  few  remarks  with  regard  to  a  species 
of  writing  in  which  the  author  has  occasionally  indulged,  are 
offered  to  the  consideration  of  those  who  are  disposed  to  criti- 
cise rigorously;  without  the  intention,  however,  of  justifying 
all  or  any  of  the  attempts  at  comic  poetry,  if  they  are  bad  speci- 
mens of  their  kind. 

The  extravagant  is  often  condemned  as  unnatural;  as  if  a 
tendency  of  the  mind,  shown  in  all  ages  and  forms,  had  not  its 
foundation  in  nature.  A  series  of  hyperbolical  images  is  con- 
sidered beneath  criticism  by  the  same  judges  who  would  write 
treatises  upon  the  sculptured  satyrs  and  painted  arabesques  of 
antiquity,  which  are  only  hyperbole  in  stone  and  colors.  As 
material  objects  in  different  hghts  repeat  themselves  in  shadows 
variously  elongated,  contracted,  or  exaggerated,  so  our  soUd 
and  sober  thoughts  caricature  themselves  in  fantastic  shapes 
inseparable  from  their  originals,  and  having  a  unity  in  their 
extravagance,  which  proves  them  to  have  retained  their  propor- 
tion in  certain  respects,  however  differing  in  outhne  from  their 
prototypes.  To  illustrate  this  by  an  example.  Our  idea  of 
a  certain  great  nation,  an  idea  founded  in  substantial  notions 
of  its  geography,  its  statistics,  its  history,  in  one  aspect  of  the 
mind  stretches  into  the  sublime  in  the  image  of  Britannia 
and  in  another  dilates  into  the  sub-ridiculous  in  the  person  of 
John  Bull.  Both  these  personifications  partially  represent 
their  object;  both  are  useful  and  philosophical.  And  lam  not 
afraid  to  say  to  the  declaimers  upon  dignity  of  composition,  that 
a  metrical  arabesque  of  a  storm  or  a  summer,  if  its  imacres. 


[  122] 

though  hyperbolical,  are  conceivable,  and  consistent  with  each 
other,  is  a  perfectly  healthy  and  natural  exercise  of  the  im- 
.  agination,  and  not,  as  some  might  think,  a  voluntary  degradation 
of  its  oflSce.  I  argue,  as  I  said  before,  for  a  principle,  and  not 
for  my  own  attempt  at  its  illustration. 

I  had  the  intention  of  pointing  out  some  accidental  plagiarisms, 
or  coincidences  as  they  might  be  more  mildly  called,  discovered 
principally  by  myself  after  the  composition  of  the  passages 
where  they  occur;  but  as  they  are,  so  far  as  I  know,  both  inno- 
cent and  insignificant,  and  as  I  have  sometimes  had  Hterary 
pickpockets  at  my  own  skirts,  I  will  leave  them,  like  the  apples 
of  Atalanta,  as  an  encouragement  to  sagacious  critics,  should 
any  such  follow  my  footsteps. 

I  have  come  before  the  pubUc  like  an  actor  who  returns  to 
fold  his  robes  and  make  his  bow  to  the  audience.  Already 
engaged  in  other  duties,  it  has  been  with  some  effort,  that  I 
have  found  time  to  adjust  my  own  mantle;  and  I  now  willingly 
retire  to  more  quiet  labors,  which,  if  less  exciting,  are  more 
certain  to  be  acknowledged  as  useful  and  received  with  grati- 
tude; thankful  that,  not  having  staked  all  my  hopes  upon  a 
single  throw,  I  can  sleep  quietly  after  closing  the  last  leaf  of  my 
little  volume.  O.  W.  H. 

Boston  y  Massachusetts,  1  November,  1836. 
Contents:  — 

Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay. 

The  Last  Reader. 

Our  Yankee  Girls. 

La  Grisette. 

An  Evening  Thought. 

A  Souvenir. 

"Qui  Vive." 

The  Wasp  and  the  Hornet. 

From  a  Bachelor's  Private  Journal. 

Stanzas. 

The  Philosopher  to  his  Love. 

L'Inconnue. 

The  Star  and  the  Water  Lily. 

Illustration  of  a  Picture. 

The  Dying  Seneca. 

A  Portrait. 

A  Roman  Aqueduct. 


[  123] 

The  Last  Prophecy  of  Cassandra. 

To  a  Caged  Lion. 

To  my  Companions. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

To  a  Blank  Sheet  of  Paper. 

To  an  Insect. 

The  pilemma. 

My  Aunt. 

The  Toadstool. 

The  Meeting  of  the  Dryads. 

The  Mysterious  Visiter.^ 

The  Spectre  Pig. 

Lines  by  a  Clerk. 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian. 

The  Poet's  Lot. 

Daily  Trials. 

Evening.    By  a  Tailor. 

The  Dorchester  Giant. 

To  the  Portrait  of  "A  Gentleman." 

To  the  Portrait  of  "A  Lady.'* 

The  Comet. 

A  Noontide  Lyric. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

The  Music-Grinders. 

The  Treadmill  Song. 

The  September  Gale. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 

The  Hot  Season. 

POEMS,  1846 
Poems.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  London:  | 
0.    Rich    &   Sons,    12,    Red    Lion    Square,  j 

MDCCCXLVI. 

12mo,  pp.  xxiv,  176.  Collation  is  as  follows: 
i,  half-title;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  imprint 
(London :  Bradbury  and  Evans,  Printers, 
Whitef riars) ;     v,    Note  by  the  English   Pub- 

^  The  word  is  so  spelled  in  all  impressions  of  the  edition  of  1849,  after 
which  it  was  changed  to  Visitor. 


[  124  ]   .. 

lisher;  ^  vi,  blank;  vii-xii,  preface  to  the  first 
American  edition;  xiii-xv,  contents;  xvi,  blank; 
xvii-xx,  Memoir  of  the  Author;  ^  xxi,  half-title 
(**  Poetry:  a  Metrical  Essay");  xxii,  blank; 
xxiii,  dedication;  1-34,  ** Poetry;"  35-38,  notes 
on  "Poetry;"  39,  half-title  (Miscellaneous 
Poems);  40,  blank;  41-175,  poems;  176,  colo- 
phon (London :  Bradbury  and  Evans,  Printers, 
Whitefriars). 

The  first  English  edition  of  the  Poems,  although  the 
title-page  of  the  Routledge  edition  of  1852  tells  a  different 
story,  which  Dr.  Holmes's  remarks  regarding  the  present 
edition  in  his  preface  to  that  of  1849  {infra,  p.  126)  may 
partly  explain.  The  poems  contained  in  the  edition  of 
1836  are  reprinted  without  change,  except  that  "  To  my 
Companions"  precedes  "To  a  Caged  Lion."  The  vol- 
ume contains  these  additional  poems :  — 

Lines  recited  at  the  Cambridge  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society's 

Dinner  [1844]. 
Terpsichore. 
The  Parting  Word. 
Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival. 
Song,   written   for   the  Annual  Dinner  of   the  New  York 

Mercantile  Library  Association. 
Departed  Days. 
The  Steamboat. 
Song,  written  for  the  Dinner  given  to  Charles  Dickens,  by 

the  Young  Men  of  Boston. 
The  Only  Daughter. 

^  "  Those  poems  which  follow  'The  Hot  Season,'  on  page  141,  are  here 
collected  for  the  first  time  from  magazines  and  other  sources,  available 
to  the  English  Editor." 

'  From  Griswold's  Poets  and  Poetry  of  America. 


[U5] 

URANIA:    A  RHYMED   LESSON 

[Ornament]  Urania:  |  a  Rhymed  Lesson.  | 
By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  Pronounced  be- 
fore the  Mercantile  Library  Association,  | 
October  14,  1846.  |  Boston:  |  William  D.  Tick- 
nor  &  Company,  \  mdcccxlvi. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  32,  viz. :  1,  title;  2,  copy- 
right, and  imprint  (Boston:  Printed  by  Free- 
man and  Bolles,  Devonshire  Street);  3-31, 
poem;   32,  notes. 

A  second  edition  was  published  in  the  same  year, 
identical  with  the  above,  except  that  the  words  "  Second 
Edition  "  are  added  on  the  title-page,  below  the  date. 

In  a  letter  to  J.  R.  Lowell,  dated  Nov.  29,  1846, 
printed  in  Morse's  Life  and  Letters,  vol.  i,  295-303,  Dr. 
Holmes  answers  certain  strictures  of  Lowell,  and  dis- 
cusses the  poem  and  his  own  views  as  reflected  therein. 

POEMS,  1849 
Poems.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  New  and 
Enlarged  Edition.  |  {Cutl  Boston:  |  William  D. 
Ticknor  &  Company.  \  m  dccc  xlix.  |  [c.  1848.] 
8vo,  pp.  xii,  272;  numerous  vignettes  and 
tail-pieces.  The  collation  is  as  follows :  i,  half- 
title;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  copyright,  and 
imprint  (Boston:  Thurston,  Torry  and  Emer- 
son, 31  Devonshire  Street);  v-vi.  From  a 
Letter  of  the  Author  to  the  Publishers;  vii-x, 
contents;  xi,  dedication  of  "Poetry;"  xii, 
blank;  1-35,  "Poetry;"  36,  blank;  37-40, 
notes  on  "Poetry;"  41,  half-title  (Lyrics); 
42,  cut;  43-160,  lyrics;  161,  half-title  (Poems 
added    since    the    First    Edition);    162,    cut; 


[  126  ] 

163-192,  poems;  193-226,  "Urania,  a  Rhymed 
Lesson;"  227-228,  notes  on  "Urania;"  229- 
272,  poems. 

The  extract  "from  a  letter  of  the  Author,"  printed  as 
preface  to  this  somewhat  rare  volume,  reads  as  follows: 

As  these  productions  are  to  be  given  to  the  public  again  at 
your  particular  request,  I  must  trust  that  you  will  make  all 
proper  explanations.  I  need  hardly  remind  you  that  a  part  of 
them  appeared  in  a  volume  pubUshed  about  a  dozen  years  ago ; 
that  when  this  volume  had  been  some  time  out  of  print,  another 
edition  was  printed,  at  your  suggestion,  in  London,  but  I  suppose 
sold  principally  in  this  country;  and  that  the  present  edition  is 
pubHshed  to  please  you  rather  than  to  gratify  myself.  You 
will,  therefore,  take  the  entire  responsibihty  of  the  second  and 
third  appearances,  except  so  far  as  my  consent  involved  me  in 
the  transaction. 

Let  me  remark,  also,  that  it  was  only  to  suit  your  wishes 
that  several  copies  of  verses,  which  sound  very  much  like  school 
exercises,  were  allowed  to  remain  unexpunged.  If  any  body 
takes  the  trouble  to  attack  them,  you  may  say  that  they  belong 
to  the  department  of  "Early*'  or  "Juvenile"  Poems,  and  should 
be  so  ticketed.  But  stand  up  for  the  new  verses,  especially  those 
added  in  this  edition.  Say  that  those  two  names, ' ' Terpsichore  " 
and  "Urania,"  may  perhaps  sound  a  little  fantastic,  but  were 
merely  intended  as  suggestive  titles,  and  fall  back  upon  Herodo- 
tus. Say  that  many  of  the  lesser  poems  were  written  for  meetings 
more  or  less  convivial,  and  must  of  course  show  something  like 
the  fire-work  frames  on  the  morning  of  July  5th.  If  any  objection 
is  made  to  that  bacchanaHan  song,  say  that  the  author  entirely 
recedes  from  several  of  the  sentiments  contained  in  it,  especially 
that  about  strong  drink  being  a  national  want.  But  ask,  if  a 
few  classical  reminiscences  at  a  banquet  may  not  be  quite  as 
like  to  keep  out  something  worse,  as  to  stand  in  the  way  of 
something  better. 

If  any  thing  pleasant  should  be  said  about  the  "new  edition," 
you  may  snip  it  out  of  the  paper  and  save  it  for  me.  If  contrary 
opinions  are  expressed,  be  so  good  as  not  to  mark  with  brackets, 
carefully  envelop,  and  send  to  me,  as  is  the  custom  with  many 
friends. 


[  m  ] 

I  have  looked  over  the  proof-sheets  pretty  accurately,  and 
arranged  the  poems  in  something  like  order.  The  first  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty-eight  pages  contain  all  that  were  printed  in  the 
edition  of  1837  [1836];  the  next  thirty-two  pages  were  added 
in  that  of  1846;  the  remaining  ones  are  now  added. 

You  can  take  this  note  of  mine  as  the  basis  of  some  kind  of 
progranmie  or  advertisement;  but  that  "Preface"  and  ''Biogra- 
phy" ^  made  rather  too  heavy  a  portico  for  so  slight  a  structure 
as  the  volume  they  introduced,  and  had  better  be  abstracted. 

The  "Poems  added  since  the  First  Edition"  include 
all  of  those  added  in  the  edition  of  1846  except  "The 
Only  Daughter,"  but  arranged  in  a  different  order;  also 
the  following,  which  had  not  previously  been  collected : 

Urania:  a  Rhymed  Lesson  (which  had  aheady  appeared  as  a 

separate  publication). 
The  Pilgrim's  Vision. 
A  Modest  Request. 
Nux  Postccenatica. 
On  Lending  a  Punch-BowL 
The  Stethoscope  Song. 
Extracts  from  a  Medical  Poem. 
A  Song  of  Other  Days. 
A  Sentiment  ("The  Pledge  of  Friendship,"  etc.). 

The  Same.    Boston:  |  Ticknor,  Reed  &  Fields.  \ 
MDCCCXLIX.  I  [c.  1848.] 
8vo,  pp.  xii,  286. 

This  second  issue  of  the  Poems  of  1849  differs  from 
that  bearing  the  imprint  of  W.  D.  Ticknor  &  Co.  in  the 
following  respects:  — 

The  imprint  on  p.  iv  (back  of  title)  is,  "Stereotyped 
by  George  A.  Curtis;  New  England  Type  and  Stereo- 
type Foundery  [sic],  Boston.  Printed  by  Thurston,  Torry 
&  Co.,  31  Devonshire  Street."  The  prefatory  matter  on 
pp.  v-vi  is  headed  "  The  Author  to  the  Publisher,"  and 
is  entirely  different  from  the  corresponding  matter  in  the 
earlier  issue.    It  reads  as  follows :  — 

*  Preferring  to  the  London  edition  of  1846.] 


[128] 

I  tbank  you  for  the  pains  you  have  taken  to  bring  together 
the  poems  now  added  to  this  collection;  one  of  them  having 
been  accidentally  omitted,  and  the  existence  of  the  others  for- 
gotten. So  many  productions  which  bear  the  plain  marks  of 
immaturity  and  inexperience  have  been  allowed  to  remain, 
because  they  were  in  the  earHer  editions,  that  a  few  occasional 
and  careless  stanzas  may  be  added  to  their  company  without 
any  apology.  I  have  no  doubt  you  are  right  in  thinking  that 
there  is  no  harm  in  allowing  a  few  crudities  to  keep  their  place 
among  the  rest;  for,  as  you  suggest,  the  readers  of  a  book  are  of 
various  ages  and  tastes,  and  what  sounds  altogether  schoolboy- 
like to  the  author  may  be  very  author-like  to  the  schoolboy. 
Some  of  the  more  questionable  extravagances  to  be  found  in  the 
earher  portion  of  the  volume,  have,  as  I  learn,  pleased  a  good 
many  young  people;  let  us  call  these,  and  all  the  others  that  we 
have  outgrown,  Juvenile  Poems,  but  keep  them,  lest  some  of 
the  smaller  sort  that  were,  or  are,  or  are  to  be,  should  lament 
their  absence.  I  thought  of  mentioning  the  date  at  which  the 
several  poems  were  written,  which  would  explain  some  of  their 
differences;  but  the  reader  can  judge  them  nearly  enough,  per- 
haps, without  this  assistance. 

To  save  a  question  that  is  sometimes  put,  it  is  proper  to  say, 
that  in  naming  two  of  the  poems  after  two  of  the  Muses,  nothing 
more  was  intended  than  a  suggestion  of  their  general  character 
and  aim.  In  a  former  note  of  mine  (which  you  printed  as  a  kind 
of  preface  to  the  last  edition),  I  made  certain  explanations 
which  I  thought  might  be  needed;  but  as  nobody  seems  to  have 
misinterpreted  any  thing,  we  will  trust  our  book  hereafter  to 
itself,  not  doubting  that  whatever  is  good  in  it  will  redeem  and 
justify  the  rest. 

Boston,  January  13th,  1849. 

The  poems  referred  to  in  the  first  sentence  of  the  above 
are  five  in  number,  to  wit :  "  The  Only  Daughter "  (the 
one  accidentally  omitted),  "Lexington,"  "The  Island 
Hunting-Song,'*  "Questions  and  Answers,"  and  "A 
Song  for  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Harvard  College, 
1836."  They  are  not  added  at  the  end  of  those  printed 
in  the  earlier  issue,  but  are  inserted  at  pp.  182-195, 
between  the  "Song  for  a   Temperance   Dinner"   and 


[  129  ] 

"  Terpsichore,"  so  that  the  pagination  in  the  two  issues 
corresponds  only  to  p.  181.  "Terpsichore"  begins  on 
p.  196,  instead  of  on  p.  182,  as  in  the  eariier  issue,  and 
the  fourteen  additional  pages  are  thus  accounted  for. 

This  edition,  in  its  final  form,  was  reprinted  many 
times,  — nearly  every  year  until  1861.  In  the  reprint  of 
1851,  a  frontispiece  portrait  of  Dr.  Holmes  was  first 
added  to  the  other  embellishments  of  the  volume. 

ASTRiEA 
Astr^a:  I  THE  Balance  of  Illusions.  |  A 
Poem  I  delivered  before  the  |  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Society  of  Yale  College,  |  August  14,  1850,  | 
by  I  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  Published  by 
request  of  the  Society.  |  Boston:  |  Ticknor, 
Reed,  and  Fields.  \  mdcccl. 

12mo,  pp.  39;  viz.:  1,  title;  2,  copyright,  and 
imprint  (Boston:  Thurston,  Torry  &  Company, 
Printers,  Devonshire  Street);  3-39,  poem. 

There  are  copies  in  boards,  others  in  cloth. 

This  poem  has  never  again  been  printed  as  written, 
except  in  the  collection  pubhshed  in  London  (Routledge) 
in  1852.  In  Songs  in  Many  Keys  (1862)  certain  excerpts 
from  it  were  printed  in  the  group  called  Pictures  from 
Occasional  Poems,  under  these  titles:  "Spring,"  "The 
Study,"  "The  Bells,"  "Non-Resistance,"  "The  Moral 
Bully,"  and  "The  Mind's  Diet,"  and  they  have  con- 
tinued to  be  so  printed  in  the  Household  and  all  other 
collected  editions. 

In  the  Cambridge  (1895)  and  Cabinet  (1899)  editions, 
the  balance  of  the  poem  is  printed  in  the  Appendix,  with 
indication  of  the  original  position  of  the  above-named 


The  following  lines  from  that  portion  of  "Astrsea" 
which  is  now  published  under  the  title  "Spring,"  were 
printed  in   Silhouettes  and   Songs,   Illustrative   of  the 


[130] 

Months,  E.  E.  Hale,  editor,  1876.    "April"  is  the  title 

there  given  to  them. 

At  last  young  April,  e^er  fresh  and  fair, 

Wooed  by  her  playmate  with  the  golden  hair. 

Chased  to  the  margin  of  receding  floods 

O'er  the  soft  meadows  starred  with  opening  buds. 

In  tears  and  blushes  sighs  herself  away. 

And  hides  her  cheek  beneath  the  flowers  of  May. 

DEDICATION    OF   PITTSFIELD    CEMETERY 

A  Poem  |  by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  |  delivered 
at  the  dedication  of  the  |  Pittsfield  Cemetery,  | 
September  9,  1850. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  8;  viz.:  1,  title;  2,  blank; 
3-8,  poem. 

This  poem  was  printed  also  in  a  pamphlet  containing 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Neill's  address,  and  other  matter  relating 
to  the  dedication.  For  a  description  of  various  forms  of 
this  pamphlet,  see  Appendix,  p.  311,  infra. 

POEMS,    1852 

The  I  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.  |  First  English  Edition.  |  London:  | 
G.    Routledge    &    Co,,      Farringdon    Street.  | 

MDCCCLII. 

32mo,  pp.  xvi,  296;  illustrated;  engraved 
haK-title.  Pp.  iii-iv,  The  Author  to  the  (Amer- 
ican) Publisher  [as  in  Poems,  1849,  2d  issue]; 
v-viii,  contents;  ix-xiv,  introduction;  xv-xvi, 
poem,  "To  an  English  Friend;"  1-35,  ''Poetry: 
a  Metrical  Essay;"'  36-46,  "Terpsichore;" 
47-81,  "Urania;"  82-115,  "Astrsea;"  116-291, 
lyrics;   292-296,  notes. 

*  "The  Cambridge  Churchyard"  and  "Old  Ironsides"  are  set  apart 
in  the  table  of  contents,  but  not  by  title  in  the  text. 


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The  lyrics  include  all  the  poems  printed  in  the  2d 
issue  of  the  edition  of  1849,  in  the  order  there  adopted, 
except  for  "Terpsichore"  and  "Urania;"  also  "The 
Ploughman,"  the  "  Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  Pittsfield 
Cemetery,"  and  the  introductory  Knes  "To  an  EngHsh 
Friend." 

The  notes  to  "Poetry"  and  to  "Urania"  are  here 
printed  at  the  end  of  the  volume ;  in  other  early  editions 
they  follow  the  poems  to  which  they  respectively  refer. 

AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION 

Response  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.,  | 
to  the  following  Toast,  proposed  at  the  Enter- 
tainment given  to  the  American  |  Medical 
Association,  by  the  Physicians  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  |  at  Metropolitan  Hall,  on  the 
5th  of  May,  1853.  | 

Toast.  —  "The  union  of  Science  and  Litera- 
ture —  a  happy  marriage,  the  fruits  of  which 
are  nowhere  seen  to  better  advantage  |  than  in 
our  American  Holmes.''^  \ 

[Then  follows  the  poem,  printed  in  Songs  in  Many 
Keys  (1862),  and  in  subsequent  collections,  under  the 
title,  "  A  Poem  for  the  meeting  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  May  5,  1853."] 

Published  by  the  Committee  of  Arrangements 
and  Reception  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation. I  Baker,  Goodwin  &  Co.,  Printers,  1 
Spruce  St.,  N.  Y. 

Broadside;  all  of  the  above,  including  poem, 
printed  on  one  large  page. 


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POEMS  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1829 

Songs  |  of  the  |  Class  of  mdcccxxix.  |  Printed 
for  the  use  of  the  Class  only.  |  [Scroll]  |  Boston : 
—  Prentiss  and  Sawyer,  Printers,  1854. 
8vo,  pp.  12,  paper. 
Dr.  Holmes's  contributions  are:  — 
A  Song  of  '29.  Written  for  the  Annual  Meeting,  1851,  pp.  3-6. 
For  the  Class  Meeting,  Nov.  29, 1853.  An  Impromptu  —  Not 

Premeditated,  p.  8. 
Questions  and  Answers.    From  Holmes's  Poems,  pp.  10-11. 

This  little  volume  was  printed  during  the  winter  of 
1853-54,  in  accordance  with  a  vote  of  the  Class,  passed 
at  the  meeting  of  Nov.  29,  1853. 

Songs  and  Poems  |  of  the  |  Class  of  |  Eight- 
een  Hundred  and  Twenty-Nine.  |  Second 
Edition.  |  Printed  for  the  use  of  the  Class  only.  | 
[Scroll]  I  Boston:  |  Prentiss,  Sawyer,    cfe   Com- 
pany,  Printers,  |  19  Water  Street.  |  1859. 
8vo,  pp.  46.    Portrait  of  Dr.  Holmes. 
Dr.  Holmes's  contributions  are :  — 
A  Song  of  "Twenty-Nine."   Written  for  the  Annual  Meeting, 

1851,  pp.  3-6. 
An  Impromptu  —  Not  Premeditated.    Written  for  the  Class 

Meeting,  Nov.  29,  1853,  p.  10. 
The  Dream  ["  The  Old  Man  Dreams  "].    Written  for  the 

Class  Meeting,  Nov.,  1854,  pp.  14-16. 
Song  ["  Remember — Forget  "].    Written  for  the  Class  Meet- 
ing, Jan.  10,  1856,  pp.  17-19. 
A  Poem  ["Our  Indian  Summer"].     Written  for  the  Class 

Meeting,  Nov.,  1856,  pp.  20-21. 
Mare  Rubrum.  Written  for  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Class, 

1858,  pp.  22-24. 
The  Boys.    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1859,  pp. 

29-31. 
Questions  and  Answers.  "From  Holmes's  Poems,"  pp.  45-46 
(Appendix). 


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Songs  and  Poems  |  of  the  |  Class  of  |  Eight- 
een Hundred  and  Twenty-Nine.  |  Third 
Edition.  |  Printed  for  the  use  of  the  Class  only.  | 
Boston:  |  Prentiss  <Sc  Deland,  Book  and  Job 
Printers,  |  No.  40,  Congress  Street.  |  1868. 

8vo,  pp.  117.  Collation  of  front  matter  is 
as  follows:  p.  1,  title;  2,  blank,  with  border; 
3-5,  list  of  members  of  the  Class ;  6,  Class-Day 
officers;  7,  present  officers;  8,  motto. 

The  poems  begin  on  p.  9,  and  include  the  following 
by  Dr.  Holmes:  — 
A  Song  of  *'Twenty-Nine,"  pp.  9-18. 

Questions  and  Answers  ("For  the  Class,  1852"),  pp.  12-13. 
An  Impromptu,  pp.  16-17. 
The  Dream,^  pp.  19-21. 
Song,^  pp.  21-23. 
Poem,^  pp.  24-25. 
Mare  Rubrum,  pp.  25-27. 
The  Boys,  pp.  31-33. 
Lines  ["I'm  ashamed — that's  the  fact,"  etc.].    Written  for 

the  Class  Meeting,  1860,  pp.  41-42. 
A  Voice  of  the  Loyal  North.    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting, 

Jan.  3,  1861,  pp.  59-61. 
In  Memory  of  J.  D.  R.   Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  23, 

1862,  p.  63. 
Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union.  Read  at  the  Class  Meeting, 

Jan.,  1862,  pp.  64-67. 
"Choose  You  this  Day  whom  Ye  will  Serve."    Read  at  the 

Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8,  1863,  pp.  69-71. 
Our  Classmate,  F.  W.  C.    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting, 

Jan.  7,  1864,  pp.  73-75. 
The  Last  Charge.    Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  7,  1864, 

pp.  77-78. 
Our  Oldest  Friend.    Read  to  "The  Boys  of  '29,"   Jan.  5, 

1865,  pp.  80-82. 
Sherman  's  in  Savannah!    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting, 
Jan.,  1865,  p.  83. 

^  For  the  titles  afterward  given  to  these  poems  see  Songs  and  Poems  of 
the  Class  of  1829,  edition  of  1859,  p.  132,  supra. 


[  134  ]  ^ 

My  Annual.   For  the  "Boys  of  '29."  — At  Annual  Meeting, 

Jan.  4,  1866,  pp.  84-86. 
All  Here,  1829-1867.   Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan. 

10,  1867,  pp.  90-92. 
Once  More.   Condiscipub's,  Cooetaneis,  Harvardianis,  Amicis. 

Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.,  1868,  pp.  96-99. 
The   Appendix,  pp.  113-117,   contains   two   extracts 
from  the  "Autocrat." 

The  Class  records  state  that  this  volume  was  printed 
"  on  tinted  paper  and  entirely  new  type." 

Additional  |  Songs  and  Poems  |  of  the  |  Class 
OF  1829. I  1868-1881. 

8vo,  pp.   119-197.      "The  paging  of  these 
'Additional  Songs  and  Poems'  has  been  ar- 
ranged with  a  view  to  their  being  bound  with 
the  original  volume  "  (p.  120). 
The  following  are  Dr.  Holmes's  contributions:  — 

Bill  and  Joe,  pp.  121-123. 

Hymn,  written  for  the  Class,  and  sung  at  their  meeting,  Jan. 

6,  1869,^  p.  124. 
Lines,  written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1869,^  pp.  125- 

128. 
Ad  Sodales.  Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 1870,^  pp. 

130-135. 
Lines  written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  5, 1871,^  pp.  137- 

140. 
Our    Sweet  Singer  J.  A.     Written  for  the  Class  Meeting, 

Jan.  4,  1872,  pp.  142-144. 
Lines  written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  9,  1873.   H.  C.  M. 

H.  S.    J.  K.  W.,  pp.  153-155. 
WTiat  I  have  come  for.    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan. 

9,  1873,  pp.  155-156. 
Lines  written  for  the  Class,  Jan.  8,  1874,^  pp.  155-156. 
Lines  written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  7, 1875,^  pp.  160- 

161. 
1  "Hymn  for  the  Class  Meeting."  '  "The  Old  Cruiser." 

'  "Even-Song."  *  "The  Smiling  Listener." 

6  "Our  Banker."  *  "For  Class  Meeting." 


[  135  ] 

"Ad  Amicos,"  1829-1876.    For  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 

1876,  pp.  165-168. 
How  not  to  Settle  It.    Read  to  the  Class,  Jan.  4,  1877,  pp. 

168-173. 
The  Last  Survivor.    Read  at  the  Meeting  of  Jan.  10,  1878, 

pp.  176-180. 
A  Dialogue,  Senex —  Juvenis.^    Read  at  the  Class  Meeting, 

Jan.  9,  1879,  pp.  180-183. 
Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum.   An  Academic  Poem.   Read  at 

the  Commencement  Dinner  of   the  Alumni  of   Harvard 

University,  June  25,  1879,  by  OUver  Wendell  Holmes; 

it  being  also  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  our  class,  pp.  186- 

192. 
The  Shadows.    Written  for  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8,  1880, 

pp.  192-194. 
Benjamin  Peirce.  Astronomer,  Mathematician.    Read  at  the 

Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6,  1881,  pp.  196-197. 

It  appears  from  the  Class    records  that  this  volume 
was  published  in  June,  1881. 

The  Latest  Poems  |  of  the  |  Class  of  1829.  | 
1882-1889. 

8vo,  pp.  199-232.    The  pagination  continues 
that  of  the  edition  of  1881. 

Contains  the  following  poems  by  Dr.  Holmes :  — 

Before  the  Cm^few.    Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  5, 

1882,  pp.  204-208. 

A  Loving-Cup  Song.   Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  4, 

1883,  pp.  211-212. 

The  Girdle  of  Friendship.   Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan. 

10,  1884,  pp.  213-214. 
The  Lyre  of  Anacreon.    Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  8, 

1885,  pp.  217-219. 
The  Old  Tune.    Thirty-Sixth  Variation.    Read  at  the  Class 

Meeting,  Jan.  7,  1886,  pp.  219-220. 
The  Broken  Circle.    Read  at  the  Class  Meeting,  Jan.  6, 

1887,  pp.  223-225. 

*  Printed  "with  some  changes"  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  August,  1880, 
under  the  title  "The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias." 


[  136  ]  .. 

The   Angel-Thief.    Read    at  the   Class   Meeting,   Jan.    5, 

1888,  pp.  ^^5-mQ. 

After  the  Curfew.    Read  at  the   Class  Meeting,  Jan.   10, 

1889,  pp.  227-229. 

Also  an  extract  from  Dr.  Holmes's  article  in  the  Atlantic 
Monthly  for  Jan.,  1890  (the  first  installment  of  "Over  the 
Teacups"),  pp.  229-232. 

The  Class  records  do  not  disclose  the  date  of  publi- 
cation of  this  concluding  volume  of  the  poems  written  by 
its  members  for  their  annual  meetings,  but  it  was  un- 
doubtedly published  during  the  year  1890,  as  it  contains 
an  extract  from  the  Atlantic  for  January  of  that  year, 
and  as  the  Rev.  Mr.  May's  letter  to  the  librarian  of 
Harvard  College,  accompanying  a  copy,  is  dated  January 
9,  1891. 

THE   NEW   EDEN 

The  New  Eden.  |  Read  before  the  Berkshire 
Horticultural  Society,  at  |  Stockbridge,  Sept. 
13,  1854.  I    By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Broadside,  small  8vo,  pp.  4;  viz. :  1,  title;  2-4, 
poem. 

Mr.  J.  E.  A.  Smith,  in  The  Poet  among  the  Hills, 
states  that,  after  reading  the  poem.  Dr.  Holmes  acceded 
to  the  request  of  a  local  editor  who  wished  to  print  it,  on 
condition  that  he  should  have  as  many  proofs  and  make 
as  many  alterations  as  he  chose,  and  should  have  a  hun- 
dred copies  of  the  poem  printed  by  itself.  He  had  sixteen 
proofs  and  doubled  the  length  of  the  poem,  besides  giving 
it  a  more  serious  tone. 

THE   PROMISE 

The  Promise.  A  Poem  written  for  Harriet 
Ryan's  Fair,  for  a  Home  for  Destitute  and 
Incurable  Women.  March  20,  1859.  Boston, 
1859. 


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Leaflet,  8vo,  pp.  4.  Poem  on  p.  1,  signed 
O.  W.  Holmes,  March  20th,  1859;  other  pages 
blank. 

VIVE   LA   FRANCE 

The  I  Address  of  Mr.  [Edward]  Everett  |  and 
the  I  Poem  of  Dr.  O.  W^.  Holmes,  |  at  the 
Dinner  given  to  |  H.  I.  H.  Monseigneur  |  The 
Prince  Napoleon,  |  September  25th,  1861.  | 
Cambridge:  |  Privately  Printed.  |  1861. 

8vo,  pp.  i-iv,  5-20;  viz.:  i,  title;  ii,  imprint 
(Riverside,  Cambridge:  Printed  by  H.  O. 
Houghton);  iii-iv,  introductory  note;  5-16, 
Mr.  Everett's  address;  17,  half-title  (Poem 
by  O.  W.  Holmes);  18,  blank;  19-20,  poem 
("Vive  la  France!"). 

SONGS   IN   MANY   KEYS 

Songs  in  Many  Keys.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.  |  Boston:  Ticknor  and  Fields.  \  1862.  | 
[e.  1861.] 

8vo,  pp.  X,  308.  Page  i,  title;  ii,  copyright,  and 
imprint  (University  Press,  Cambridge :  Stereo- 
typed and  Printed  by  Welch,  Bigelow  &  Co.) ; 
iii,  dedication,  "To  the  most  indulgent  of 
readers,  the  kindest  of  critics,  my  beloved  mo- 
ther, all  that  is  least  unworthy  of  her  in  this 
volume  is  dedicated  by  her  affectionate  son;" 
iv,  blank;   v,  verse, ^  beginning  "The  piping 

*  In  all  collected  editions  of  Dr.  Holmes's  poems  the  title  "Songs  in 
Many  Keys"  has  been  given  to  a  group  corresponding  in  the  main  to  the 
contents  of  this  volume,  but  varying  slightly  from  time  to  time,  and  these 
lines  are  printed  at  the  head  of  that  group  in  every  case.  In  the  various 
issues  of  the  Household  Edition  they  have  no  separate  title,  but  in  the 
Riverside,  Cambridge,  and  Cabinet  Editions,  they  are  entitled  "Prologue." 


[  138  ]  .. 

of  our  slender,  peaceful  reeds;"  vi,  blank; 
vii-x,  contents;  1-305,  poems;  306,  blank; 
307-308,  note  to  "Agnes." 

A  list  of  the  poems  follows;  none  of  them  had  pre- 
viously appeared  in  any  collection,  with  these  exceptions : 
"The  Ploughman,"  the  "Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  the 
Pittsfield  Cemetery,"  and  the  lines  "To  an  English 
Friend"  were  included  in  the  London  edition  of  1852; 
and  "Spring,"  "The  Study,"  "The  Bells,"  "Non-Re- 
sistance,"  "The  Moral  Bully,"  and  "The  Mind's  Diet" 
are  excerpts  from  "Astraea,"  which  was  printed  entire 
in  that  edition. 

Agnes. ^ 

The  Ploughman. 

A  Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  the  Pittsfield  Cemetery. 

Pictures  from  Occasional  PoemSy  1850-1866. 

Spring. 

The  Study. 

The  Bells. 

Non-Resistance. 

The  Moral  Bully. 

The  Mind's  Diet. 

Our  Limitations. 

The  Old  Player.' 

The  Island  Ruin. 

The  Banker's  Dinner. 

The  Mysterious  Illness. 

A  Mother's  Secret. 

The  Disappointed  Statesman. 

The  Secret  of  the  Stars. 
To  Governor  Swain. 
To  an  English  Friend. 
Vignettes. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth. 

*  In  the  poem  as  here  printed  (part  ii,  stanza  28),  and  in  all  subsequait 
reprintings  except  the  Riverside,  Cambridge,  and  Cabinet  Editions,  Agnes's 
surname  is  spelled  Sitrraige;  in  those  editions  it  is  changed  to  Starriage, 
the  form  adopted  by  Mr.  E.  L.  Bynner,  in  his  romance. 

'  For  the  history  (rf  this  and  the  six  foUowing  poons,  see  mprOy  p.  20. 


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After  a  Lecture  on  Moore. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Keats. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Shelley. 

After  a  Course  of  Lectures. 

The  Hudson. 
A  Poem  for  the  Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  New  Eden. 

A  Sentiment  ("A  triple  health  to  Friendship,  Science,  Art"). 
Semicentennial   Celebration  of  the  New  England   Society 

(Dec.  22,  1855). 
Ode  for  Washington's  Birthday. 
Class  of  '29  (Nov.  6,  1856). 
For  the  Meeting  of  the  Bums  Club  (1856). 
For  the  Burns  Centennial  Celebration  (Jan.  25, 1859). 
Birthday  of  Daniel  Webster  (Jan.  18,  1856). 
Meeting  of  the  Alumni  of  Harvard  CoUege  (1857). 
The  Parting  Song  (1857). 

Boston  Common  —  Three  Pictures,  1630, 1774, 186-  (1859). 
Latter-Day  Warnings. 
Prologue  [from  the  "Autocrat**]. 
The  Old  ]Man  of  the  Sea. 

Ode  for  a  Social  Meeting,  with  Slight  Alterations  by  a  Teeto- 
taler. 
The  Deacon's  ^lasterpiece :    or  the  Wonderful  "One-Hoss 

Shay.** 
Estivation. 
Contentment 
Parson  Turell's  Legacy. 
De  Sauty. 

The  Old  Man  Dreams. 
Mare  Rubnun. 
What  we  all  Think. 
Spring  has  Come. 
A  Good  Time  Going. 
The  Last  Blossom. 
"The  Boys." 

The  Opening  of  the  Piano. 
Midsummer. 

A  Parting  Health.  To  J.  L.  Motlev  (1857). 
A  Good-by.    To  J.  R.  Lowell  (1855). 
At  a  Birthday  Festival.  To  J.  R.  Lowell  (Feb.  22, 1858). 


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A  Birthday  Tribute.  To  J.  F.  Clarke  (April  4, 1860). 

The  Gray  Chief  (1859). 

The  Last  Look.    W.  W.  Swain  (Sept.  22,  1858). 

In  Memory  of  Charles  Wentworth  tjpham,  Junior  (1860). 

Martha  (Died  Jan.  7,  1861). 

Sun  and  Shadow. 

The  Chambered  Nautilus. 

The  Two  Armies. 

For  the  Meeting  of  the  National  Sanitary  Association  (1860). 

Musa. 

The  Voiceless. 

The  Crooked  Footpath. 

The  Two  Streams. 

Robinson  of  Ley  den. 

Saint  Anthony  the  Reformer. 

Avis. 

Iris,  her  Book. 

Under  the  Violets. 

The  Promise. 

The  Living  Temple. 

Hymn  of  Truth. 

A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 

A  Voice  of  the  Loyal  North.  National  Fast,  Jan.  4, 1861. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline. 

Under  the  Washington  Elm,  Cambridge  (April  27,  1861). 

Liternational  Ode.    Our  Father's  Land.    Sung  in  unison  by 

1200  children  of  the  public  schools,  at  the  visit  of  the  Prince 

of  Wales  to  Boston,  October  18,  1860. 
Freedom,  our  Queen. 
Army  Hymn. 
Parting  Hvmn. 
The  Flower  of  Liberty. 
The  Sweet  Little  Man. 
Vive  la  France!  Dinner  to  Prince  Napoleon,  Revere  House, 

Sept.  25,  1861. 
Union  and  Liberty. 

It  will  be  noticed  that,  while  the  poems  scattered 
through  the  "Autocrat"  and  "Professor"  are  given  a 
place  in  this  volume,  they  are  curiously  intermingled 
and  are  not  arranged  according  to  any  system  which 


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one  can  readily  grasp.  At  this  time  (1862)  Dr.  Holmes 
had  long  since  acquired  the  habit  of  reading  an  annual 
poem  to  the  Class  of  '29,  but  his  contributions  of  1851, 
1853,  and  1855  are  omitted  from  this  collection.  They 
had  already  been  printed  in  the  Songs  of  the  Class,  but 
so  had  "The  Old  Man  Dreams"  (1854),  "Our  Indian 
Summer"  (1856),  "Mare  Rubrum"  (1858),  and  "The 
Boys  "  (1859),  which  are  included  in  this  volume. 
Apparently  reprinted  several  times. 

POEMS:  BLUE  AND  GOLD  EDITION 

The  Poems  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  | 
[Ornament]  \  [Device]  \  Boston:  |  Ticknor  and 
Fields,  I  1862. 

Blue  and  Gold  Edition;  32mo,  pp.  xii, 
410,  followed  by  blank  leaf,  list  of  Blue  and 
Gold  books,  another  blank  leaf,  and  a  list 
of  books  published  by  Ticknor  &  Fields  (16 
pages).  Collation  is  as  follows:  Portrait  (front- 
ispiece, facing  title);  i,  title;  ii,  copyright,  and 
imprint  (University  Press:  Welch,  Bigelow, 
and  Company,  Cambridge);  iii-v,  verse,  "To 
my  Readers,"  dated  April  8,  1862;  ^  vi,  blank; 
vii-xi,  contents;  xii,  blank;  1,  half-title  ("Po- 
etry: a  Metrical  Essay");  2,  blank;  3,  dedica- 
tion of  "Poetry;"  4,  blank;  5-32,  "Poetry;" 
33,  half-title  (Miscellaneous  Poems);  34,  blank; 
35-190,  poems;  191,  half-title  (Songs  in  Many 
Keys);  192,  blank;  193,  dedication  (to  his 
mother);  194,  blank;  195-402,  poems;  403, 
haK-title  (Notes);  404,  blank;  405-410,  notes. 
Floriated  initial  letters  throughout,  and  orna- 
ments on  half-titles  and  dedication  pages. 

^  Printed  in  all  subsequent  collected  editions  as  the  opening  poem. 


[  142  ]  ^ 

This  edition  contains,  in  addition  to  all  the  poems  in- 
cluded in  the  2d  issue  of  1849,  and  in  Songs  in  Many 
Keys,  1862,  the  "Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union/'  on 
pp.  398-401,  before  "Union  and  Liberty,"  which  closes 
the  volume.  "The  Cambridge  Churchyard"  and  "Old 
Ironsides  "  were  first  printed  as  separate  poems  in  this 
edition,  which  was  reprinted  many  times. 

SONGS  OF  MANY  SEASONS 
Songs  of  Many  Seasons.  |  1862-1874.  |  By  | 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  [Device]  \  Boston:  | 
James  R.  Osgood  and  Company,  \  late  Ticknor 
&  Fields,  and  Fields,  Osgood,  &  Co.  |  1875. 
[c.  1874.] 

12mo,  pp.  xii,  216.  Collation  is  as  follows: 
i,  title;  ii,  copyright,  and  imprint  (University 
Press:  Welch,  Bigelow,  &  Co.,  Cambridge); 
iii-iv,  verse,  "Opening  the  Window;"  iv-vii, 
verse,  "Programme,"  dated  Oct.  7,  1874;  viii, 
blank;  ix-xii,  contents;  1-216,  poems,  divided 
into  groups,  as  follows :  — 

In  the  Quiet  Days,  pp.  1-40: 

An  Old-Year  Song,  1874. 

Bill  and  Joe,  1868. 

Dorothy  Q.  1871. 

The  Organ-Blower,  1872. 

Homesick  in  Heaven,^  1872. 

Fantasia.    The  Young  Girl's  Poem,*  1872. 

Aunt  Tabitha.    The  Young  Girl's  Poem,*  1872. 

At  the  Pantomime,  18 — ,  rewritten  1874. 

After  the  Fire,  1872. 

A  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party,  1874. 

Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series,  1872.* 

Nearing  the  Snow-Line. 
In  War  Time,  pp.  41-62: 

To  Canaan.    A  Puritan  War-Song,  1862. 

1  From  "  The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table." 


[  143  ] 

Thus  Saith  the  Lord,  1862. 
Choose  You  this  Day,  etc.,  1863. 
Never  or  Now!    An  Appeal,  1862. 
The  Last  Charge,  1864. 
Our  Country,  1865. 

Sherman's  in  Savannah!  A  Half -Rhymed  Impromptu,  1865. 
God  Save  the  Flag,  1865. 

Hymn  —  After  the  Emancipation  Proclamation,  1865. 
Hymn  for  the  Fair  at  Chicago,  1865. 
Songs  of  Welcome  and  Farewell,  pp.  63-97: 
America  to  Russia.    Read  by  Hon.  G.  V.  Fox  at  a  dinner 

given  to  the  Mission  from  the  United  States,  St.  Petersburg, 

Aug.  5,  1866. 
Welcome  to  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis,  Music  Hall,  Dec.  9, 1871. 
At  the  Banquet  to  the  Grand  Duke  Alexis,  Dec.  9  [11],  1871. 
At  the  Banquet  to  the  Chinese  Embassy,  Aug.  21, 1868. 
At  the  Banquet  to  the  Japanese  Embassy,  Aug.  2, 1872. 
Bryant's  Seventieth  Birthday,  Nov.  3,  1864. 
At  a  Dinner  to  General  Grant,  July  31,  1865. 
At  a  Dinner  to  Admiral  Farragut,  July  6,  1865. 
A  Toast  to  Wilkie  Collins,  Feb.  16, 1874. 
To  H.  W.  Longfellow.     Before  his  Departure  for  Europe, 

May  27,  1868. 
To  Christian  Gottfried  Ehrenberg.     For  his  Jubilseum  at 

Berlin,  Nov.  5,  1868. 
Memorl^l  Verses,  pp.  98-128; 

For  the  Services  in  Memory  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  June  1, 

1865. 
For  the  Commemoration  Services,  Cambridge,  July  21,  1865. 
Edward  Everett,  Our  First  Citizen,  Jan.  30, 1865. 
Shakespeare  Tercentennial  Celebration,  April  23, 1864. 
In  Memory  of  John  and  Robert  Ware,  May  25,  1864. 
Humboldt's  Birthday.  Centennial  Celebration,  Sept.  14, 1869. 
Poem  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Halleck  Monument,  July  8, 

1869. 
Hymn  for  the  Celebration  at  the  Laying  of  the  Corner-Stone 

of  Harvard  Memorial  Hall,  Oct.  6,  1870. 
Hymn  for  the  Dedication  of  Memorial  Hall  at  Cambridge, 

June  23,  1874. 
Hymn  at  the  Funeral  Services  of  Charles  Sumner,  April  29, 

1874. 


[  144  ]  , 

Rhymes  of  an  Hour,  pp.  129-166: 

Address  for  the  Opening  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  New 

York,  Dec.  3,  1873. 
Rip  Van  Winkle,  M.  D.   An  After-Dinner  Prescription  taken 

by  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  at  their  meeting 

held  May  25,  1870. 
Chanson  without  Music.   By  the  Professor  Emeritus  of  Dead 

and  Live  Languages,  1867. 
For  the  Centennial  Dinner  of  the  Proprietors  of  Boston  Pier, 

or  the  Long  Wharf,  April  16,  1873. 
A  Poem  Served  to  Order.  Phi  Beta  Kappa,  June  26,  1873. 
The  Fountain  of  Youth.  Read  at  the  Meeting  of  the  Harvard 

Alumni  Association,  June  25,  1873. 
A  Hymn  of  Peace.  Sung  at  the  "  Jubilee,"  June  15, 1869. 
For  Meetings  of  the  Class  of  1829,  pp.  167-216: 
Our  Classmate  F.  W.  C,  1864. 
Our  Oldest  Friend,  1865. 
My  Annual,  1866. 
AU  Here,  1867. 
Once  More,  1868. 
The  Old  Cruiser,  1869. 
Hynm  for  the  Class-Meeting,  1869. 
Even-Song,  1870. 
The  Smihng  Listener,  1871. 
Our  Sweet  Singer,  J.  A.,  1872. 
H.  C.  M.,  H.  S.,  J.  K.  W.,  1873. 
WTiat  I  have  Come  For,  1873. 
Our  Banker,  1874. 

GRANDMOTHER'S  STORY  OF  BUNKER  HILL 
BATTLE 

[Private  Copy.]*  Grandmother's  Story  of 
Bunker-Hill  Battle  |  as  she  saw  it  from 
the  Belfry.  |  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  [1875.] 
Pamphlet,  folio,  pp.  10.  Printed  in  very  large 
type,  on  right-hand  page  only.  Six  copies 
printed. 

^  These  brackets  are  in  the  original. 


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On  the  title-page  of  the  copy  in  the  Boston  Public 
Library  Dr.  Holmes  wrote,  "for  old  eyes." 

Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker-Hill  Bat- 
tle, by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Illustrated  by 
H.  W.  McVickar.  Imprinted  at  New  York  by 
Dodd,  Mead  &  Company  by  arrangement  with 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.    [c.  1883.] 

Square  8vo,  pp.  32.  Illustrated  in  color; 
full-page  cuts,  and  cut  on  each  page  of  text. 

The  Same.  With  Biography  and  Notes  by  Mar- 
garet Hill  McCarter.  Topeka,  Kansas,  Crane 
&  Co.,  1904. 

12mo,  pp.  69.  Contains  a  "guide  to  the 
study  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes." 

The  earliest  publication  of  this  poem  was  in  the  copy- 
righted volume,  Memorial — Bunker  Hill,  issued  by  James 
R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  which  contained  also  12  pages  of 
historical  matter,  written  by  James  M.  Bugbee,  Esq.  See 
p.  31,  supra,  note. 

A   FAMILY   RECORD 

A  Family  Record.  Woodstock,  Connecticut, 
July  4th,  1877. 

Pamphlet,  4to,  pp.  11.  Poem  begins  on  page 
1,  under  above  heading.  Only  very  few  copies 
printed. 

In  the  correspondence  accompanying  the  copy  now 
in  the  Library  of  Harvard  College,  Dr.  Holmes  states 
that  the  pamphlet  was  printed  for  him  at  "  Mr.  Clapp's 
Printing  Office." 

This  poem  was  read  at  Roseland  Park,  Conn.,  during 
the  annual  celebration  of  Independence  Day  under  the 
auspices  of  Dr.  Bowen  of  the  Independent.  "  The  Ship 
of  State  "  was  read  on  the  same  occasion. 


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POEMS,    HOUSEHOLD   EDITION 

The  I  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.  |  Household  Edition.  |  [Device]  \ 
Boston:  |  Houghton,  Osgood  and  Company,  \ 
The  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge.  |  1877. 

8vo,  pp.  xii,  322.  The  collation  is  as  fol- 
lows: i,  half-title;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  copy- 
right; v-x,  contents;  xi,  "To  my  Readers" 
[verse];  xii,  blank;  1-320,  poems;  321-322, 
notes. 

The  Household  was  the  first  collected  edition  of  Dr. 
Hobnes's  poems  after  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition  of  1862. 
It  included  all  of  those  contained  in  the  edition  of  1836, 
except  "  A  Souvenir,"  "  The  Dying  Seneca,"  "  The  Last 
Prophecy  of  Cassandra,"  and  "To  my  Companions;" 
all  of  the  edition  of  1849;  all  of  the  Songs  in  Many  Keys; 
"  The  Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union  "  (which  was  the 
only  "  uncollected  "  poem  in  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition) ; 
all  of  the  Songs  of  Many  Seasons ;  and  some  additional 
poems,  a  list  of  which  will  be  given  a  httle  later.  The 
contents  of  the  volume  were  arranged  thus :  — 

Earlier  Poems  (1830-1836). 

This  group  contained  eighteen  of  the  Poems  of  1836,  "Poetry: 
a  Metrical  Essay,"  coming  last.  "Old  Ironsides"  and  "The 
Cambridge  Churchyard  "  are  again  printed  separately. 

Additional  Poems  (1837-1848). 

This  group  contained  twenty-one  of  the  poems  added  in  the 
edition  of  1849,  2d  issue. 

Miscellaneous  Poems  (1830,  etc.). 

This  group  contained  all  the  rest  of  the  poems  printed  in  1836 
and  1849,  except  the  four  named  above,  and  except  also 
"Questions  and  Answers,"  which  was  here  placed  among  the 
Poems  of  the  Class  of  '29. 

*  Written  as  an  introduction  to  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition. 


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Songs  in  Many  Keys  (1849-1861). 

This  group  was  divided  into  1, 1849-1856,  and  II,  1857-1861. 
The  two  divisions  embraced  the  poems  contained  in  the  volume 
of  this  title,  with  the  exception  of  most  of  those  originally  pub- 
lished in  the  "  Autocrat "  and  "  Professor,"  and  those  written 
for  the  Class  of  '29,  which  were  printed  in  separate  groups. 

Poems  from  the  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table 
(1857-1858). 

"The  Living  Temple"  and  "The  Voiceless"  were  omitted 
from  this  group,  for  some  unfathomable  reason,  and  left  in  the 
second  division  of  Songs  in  Many  Keys;  while  "The  Old  Man 
Dreams"  and  "Mare  Rubrum,"  which  were  originally  written 
for  meetings  of  the  Class  of  '29,  were  placed  in  that  group. 
"Album  Verses"  had  not  previously  been  collected. 

Poems  from  the  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table 
(1858-1859). 

"A  Mother's  Secret"  was  printed  among  the  Pictures  from 
Occasional  Poems  in  the  first  division  of  Songs  in  Many  Keys; 
"The  Two  Streams"  and  "At  a  Birthday  Festival,"' in  the 
second  division  of  the  same  group;  and  "The  Boys,"  among 
the  Class  poems. 

Poems  from  the  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table  (1871- 
1872). 

"  J[oseph]  A[ngier]"  was  printed  in  the  next  following  group 
under  the  title  "  Our  Sweet  Singer  —  J.  A."  "Wind-Clouds  and 
Star-Drifts"  here  first  collected. 

Poems  of  the  Class  of  '29  (1851-1877). 

This  group  includes  all  the  songs  and  poems  found  in  the 
third  edition  of  the  Class  pubHcation  (1868),  together  with  "Bill 
and  Joe"  (placed  at  the  head  of  the  group),  and  the  following 
additional  pieces: — 

The  Old  Cruiser  (1869). 

Hymn  for  the  Class-Meeting  (1869). 

Even-Song  (1870). 

The  Smiling  Listener  (1871). 

Our  Sweet  Singer  —  J.  A.  (1872). 

H.  C.  M.   H.  S.    J.  K.  W.  (1873). 

What  I  have  Come  For  (1873). 

Our  Banker  (1874). 


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For  Class  Meeting  (1875). 

Ad  Amicos  (1876). 

How  Not  to  Settle  It  (1877). 

Of  these  Class  poems  the  following  had  not  previously  ap- 
peared in  any  collection  of  Dr.  Holmes's  works,  except  the 
privately  printed  Class  publications:  "A  Song  of  *29,"  "An 
Impromptu  —  Not  Premeditated,"  "  Remember  —  Forget," 
"For  Class  Meeting"  (1875),  "Ad  Amicos"  (1876),  and  "How 
Not  to  Settle  It"  (1877). 

Songs  op  Many  Seasons  (1862-1874). 

The  poems  contained  in  the  volume  of  this  title  are  here 
reprinted  under  the  same  subdivisions  and  in  the  same  order, 
with  these  omissions:  "Homesick  in  Heaven,"  "Fantasia," 
"Aunt  Tabitha,"  and  the  "Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table 
Series,"  which  are  printed  under  the  separate  heading  of  "  Poems 
from  the  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table ; "  "  Bill  and  Joe,"  "  Choose 
You  this  Day,"  "The  Last  Charge,"  "Sherman's  in  Savannah," 
and  the  whole  subdivision  "For  Meetings  of  the  Class  of  *29," 
all  of  which  appear  in  the  preceding  group. 

Additional  Poems  (to  1877). 

At  a  Meeting  of  Friends,  August  29,  1859. 

A  Farewell  to  Agassiz. 

A  Sea  Dialogue. 

At  the  "Atlantic  Dinner,"  December  15,  1874. 

"Lucy."  For  her  Golden  Wedding,  October  18, 1875. 

Hymn  for  the  Inauguration  of   the  Statue  of  Governor 

Andrew,  at  Hingham,  October  7,  1875. 
A  Memorial  Tribute. 
Joseph  Warren,  M.  D. 
Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker-Hill  Battle. 
Old  Cambridge,  July  3,  1875. 
Welcome  to  the  Nations,  Philadelphia,  July  4, 1876. 
A  Famihar  Letter. 
Unsatisfied. 

How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet. 
An  Appeal  for  "the  Old  South." 
The  First  Fan. 
To  R.  B.  H. 
"The  Ship  of  State.'* 
A  Family  Record. 


[  149  ] 

"A  Farewell  to  Agassiz"  and  "A  Sea  Dialogue"  had  pre 
viously  appeared  in  the  Humorous  Poems,  1865;  none  of  the 
others  had  been  printed  in  any  collection. 

First  Verses.    PhiUips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  1824  or 
1825. 

These  verses  (a  translation  from  the  .^neid  Bk.  I)  fill  the 
last  page  of  the  text  (320). 

Reprinted  without  change  in  1880. 

The  Same.    Household  Edition.    With  Illustra- 
tions.   Boston,  1878. 

The  Same.    Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  and  Company,  1887. 

8vo,  pp.  xiv,  357;  with  frontispiece  portrait, 
and  8  full-page  cuts.  The  collation  is  as  follows : 
i,  blank;  ii,  panel  advertisement  of  other  books 
"by  the  same  author;"  iii,  title;  iv,  copyright 
and  imprint;  v-x,  contents;  xi,  list  of  illustra- 
tions; xii,  blank;  xiii,  "To  my  Readers;" 
xiv,  "From  the  first  gleams  of  morning  to  the 
gray"  (Prelude  to  Poems,  Handy  Volume 
Edition,  1881,  since  called  "Rhymes  of  a  Life- 
time"); 1-351,  poems;  352,  blank;  353-354, 
notes;   355-357,  index  of  titles. 

Pages  1  to  320  are  printed  from  the  same  plates  as  the 
earlier  impressions  of  the  Household;  on  pages  321  to 
351,  under  the  group  heading  The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other 
Poems,  are  printed  the  contents  of  the  volume  of  that 
title  which  was  published  in  1880,  the  order  being  un- 
changed. 

The  Same.    Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co,  [1895.] 

8vo,  pp.  xviii,  426.  Collation  of  front  matter 
is  as  follows:   i,  title;    ii,  copyright;   iii,  Pub- 


[150]      , 

lishers'  Note;^    iv,  blank;    v-vi,  Biographical 
Sketch;    vii-xiv,  contents;    xv,  list  of  illustra- 
tions;   xvi,  blank;    xvii,  "To  my  Readers;" 
xviii,  "From  the  first  gleams  of  morning,"  etc. 
This  edition  is  printed  from  the  old  plates  to  p.  351; 
pp.  352-409  contain,  under  the  general  heading  Before 
the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  the  poems  printed  in  the 
volume   of   that  title   (1888),   in  the  same   order  there 
adopted,  together  with  others  of  later  date;  and  pp.  410- 
416,  a  group  of  Poems  from  Over  the  Teacups.    The 
notes  are  on  pp.  417-418,  and  there  are  indexes  of  first 
lines  (419-422),  and  titles  (423-426). 

As  the  plates  of  the  earlier  impressions  of  the  House- 
hold were  used,  it  was  impossible  to  adopt  the  more  logi- 
cal arrangement  followed  in  the  Riverside  Edition,  and 
still  further  improved  in  the  Cambridge  Edition. 

Poems,  Boston,  James  R.  Osgood  &  Co.,  1877. 
Library  Edition. 

Substantially  uniform  with  Household  Edition.  The 
compiler's  knowledge  of  this  edition  is  Hmited  to  a  bare 
mention  of  it  in  an  old  catalogue. 

THE   SCHOOL-BOY 

The  School-Boy.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  | 
With  Illustrations.  |  [Device]  \  Boston :  |  Hough- 
ton, Osgood  and  Company.  \  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge.  |  1879. 

8vo,  pp.   79  (i-x,  11-79),  with  28  full-page 

*  "When  the  Riverside  Edition  of  Dr.  Holmes's  complete  works  was 
issued  about  three  years  before  his  death,  he  took  advantage  of  the  oppor- 
tunity to  decide  finally  what  poems,  printed  up  to  that  time,  he  wished  to 
preserve.  Later,  the  pubhshers  added  the  few  poems  written  after  the 
author's  selection  was  made,  and  a  few  other  fugitive  pieces  which  had 
then  escaped  his  notice.  The  contents  of  the  present  Household  Edition 
are  substantially  the  same  as  those  of  the  three  volumes  in  the  Riverside 
Edition  devoted  to  poems,  though  the  order  of  arrangement  varies  shghtly." 


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and  text  cuts.  Collation:  i,  blank;  ii,  frontis- 
piece; iii,  title;  iv,  copyright  [1878];  v,  dedi- 
cation: "To  the  Students  of  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Massachusetts.  Read  at  the  Centen- 
nial Celebration,  June  6,  1878;"  vi,  blank; 
vii,  ix,  list  of  illustrations;  viii,  x,  blank;  11, 
half-title;  1£,  blank;  13-79,  poem,  printed  on 
right-hand  pages  only. 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of   G.  Routledge  & 
Sons. 

THE  IRON  GATE,  AND  OTHER  POEMS 

The   Iron  Gate,  |  and    Other  Poems.  |  By  | 
Oliver    Wendell     Holmes.  |  [Device]  \  Boston: 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company.  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge.  |  1880. 

8vo,  portrait,  pp.  82.  Collation:  1,  title;  2, 
copyright,  and  imprint  (Riverside,  Cambridge : 
Stereotyped  and  Printed  by  H.  O.  Houghton 
and  Company);  3,  contents;  4,  blank;  5-82, 
poems. 

Contents:  — 
The  Iron  Gate. 

Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum.  An  Academic  Poem,  1829-1879, 
My  Aviary. 
On  the  Threshold. 
To  George  Peabody. 
At  the  Papyrus  Club. 
For  Whittier's  Seventieth  Birthday. 
Two  Sonnets:  Harvard. 
The  Last  Survivor. 
The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias. 
The  Shadows. 
The  Coming  Era. 
In  Response. 
For  the  Moore  Centennial. 


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To  James  Freeman  Clarke. 

Welcome  to  Chicago  Commercial  Club. 

American  Academy  Centennial  Celebration. 

The  School-Boy. 

The  Silent  Melody. 

POEMS,  HANDY  VOLUME  EDITION 

The  I  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  Volume  I  [II]  |  [Device]  \  Boston  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge  |  1881. 

32mo;  vol.  i,  pp.  xiv,  444;  vol.  ii,  pp.  viii, 
427.  Collation  of  vol.  i:  i,  title;  ii,  copyright 
and  imprint;  iii,  "From  the  first  gleam  of 
morning  to  the  gray"  (sonnet,  now  called 
"Rhymes  of  a  Lifetime");  iv,  blank;  v-vii, 
"To  my  Readers;"  viii,  blank;  ix-xiv,  contents; 
1-444,  poems.  Collation  of  vol.  ii:  i,  title;  ii, 
copyright  and,  imprint;  iii-vii,  contents;  viii, 
blank;  1-413,  poems;  414,  blank;  415-418, 
notes;  419-427,  index  of  first  lines.  Vol.  ii  has 
a  frontispiece  portrait. 

The  contents  are  divided  into  the  same  groups  as  in 
the  Household  Edition,  each  group  having  a  separate 
half-title,  and  the  order  of  the  poems  is  unchanged  from 
that  edition,  except  that  "  Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum," 
"The  Last  Survivor,"  "The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias," 
and  "  The  Shadows  "  are  taken  from  The  Iron  Gate  col- 
lection and  placed  at  the  end  of  the  Poems  of  the  Class 
of  '29.  Under  the  heading  The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other 
Poems,"  at  the  end  of  vol.  ii,  are  printed  the  contents 
of  the  volume  of  that  title,  less  the  four  poems  named 
above,  and  plus  these  four,  now  first  collected,  viz.: 
"Boston  to  Florence,"  "Post-Prandial,"  "Our  Home  — 


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Our  Country,"  and  "  Poem  for  the  Centennial  Anniver- 
sary Dinner  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical  Society." 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of  Sampson  Low  & 
Co. 

The  catalogue  of  the  British  Museum  contains  an 
entry  of  a  "revised  edition"  of  Dr.  Holmes's  "Poems," 
published  by  Routledge&  Sons  (pp.  xii,  324),  in  1881; 
and  of  his  "  Poetical  Works,"  published  by  the  same  firm 
in  its  "Excelsior  Series,"  in  1883. 


THE   LAST   LEAF 

The  Last  Leaf  |  Poem  |  by  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  Illustrated  by  |  George  Wharton  Ed- 
wards &  F.  Hopkinson  Smith  |  [Device]  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,  \  The  Riverside 
Press,  Cambridge,  |  m  dccclxxxv. 

4to,  decorated  cloth,  pp.  54,  with  decorative 
borders  and  many  full-page  plates.  Rubricated 
title.  Pp.  3-9  and  52-54  are  right-hand  pages; 
pp.  10-51  are  printed  on  one  side  only,  text  on 
left-hand  page,  cut  on  right-hand.  Pp.  3-5, 
list  of  illustrations.  On  pp.  6-8  is  a  facsimile 
of  a  manuscript  copy  of  the  poem;  on  pp.  52- 
54,  "The  History  of  this  Poem,"  by  Dr. 
Holmes,  dated  Beverly  Farms,  July  9,  1885. 

In  the  "  history  "  Dr.  Holmes  says :  "  Just  when  it  was 
written  I  cannot  exactly  say,  nor  in  what  paper  or  peri- 
odical it  was  first  published.  It  must  have  been  written 
before  April,  1833;  probably  in  1831  or  1832.  It  was 
republished  in  the  first  edition  of  my  poems,  in  the 
year  1836."  The  fact  is  that  the  poem  was  first  published 
in  the  Amateur  for  March  26,  1831,  no.  17.  See  p.  205, 
infra. 


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The  "  history  "  is  given  almost  in  full  in  the  Cambridge 
Edition,  1895,  pp.  4-5.  The  false  rhyme  in  the  3d  stanza, 
there  referred  to,  was  corrected  in  1836,  "sad  and  wan" 
being  substituted  for  "so  forlorn,"  in  the  3d  hne. 

The  Same.     Boston;  Houghton^  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1894. 

8vo,  pp.  55,  with  the  decorative  borders  and 
illustrations  of  the  quarto  edition  reproduced 
in  smaller  format. 

Issued  in  England,  with  imprint  of  Sampson  Low  & 
Co. 

The  two  editions  correspond  exactly,  page  for  page, 
except  in  these  respects :  between  the  title-page  and  list 
of  illustrations  is  a  two-page  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes  to 
the  publishers,  in  facsimile,  dated  Beveriy  Farms,  July  12, 
1894 ;  ^  on  pp.  6-8,  the  poem  is  printed  in  ordinary  type ; 
the  text  and  illustrations  are  printed  on  alternate  right- 
hand  pages;  and  the  "history  of  the  poem,*'  at  the  end, 
fills  four  pages,  5^-55. 

Dr.  Holmes's  letter  is  printed  in  the  Cambridge  Edition,  p.  5. 
It  reads  thus:  "I  have  read  the  proof  you  sent  me  and  find 
nothing  in  it  which  I  feel  called  upon  to  alter  or  explain. 

*T  have  lasted  long  enough  to  serve  as  an  illustration  of  my 
own  poem.  I  am  one  of  the  very  last  of  the  leaves  which  still 
cling  to  the  bough  of  life  that  budded  in  the  spring  of  the  nine- 
teenth century.  The  days  of  my  years  are  threescore  and 
twenty,  and  I  am  almost  halfway  up  the  steep  incline  which 
leads  me  toward  the  base  of  the  new  century  so  near  to  which 
I  have  already  climbed. 

"I  am  pleased  to  find  that  this  poem,  carrying  with  it  the 
marks  of  having  been  written  in  the  jocund  morning  of  life,  is 
still  read  and  cared  for.  It  was  with  a  smile  on  my  lips  that  I 
wrote  it;  I  cannot  read  it  without  a  sigh  of  tender  remem- 
brance. I  hope  it  will  not  sadden  my  older  readers,  while  it  may 
amuse  some  of  the  younger  ones  to  whom  its  experiences  are  as 
yet  only  floating  fancies." 

1  Dr.  Hohnes  died  in  October,  1894. 


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TRANSLATION 

La  Derniere  Feuille.  Traduit  du  texte  amer- 
icain  par  B.  H.  Gausseron.  Paris,  Quantin, 
1889. 

4to.  Illustrated  by  F.  H.  Smith  and  G.  W. 
Edwards. 

This  French  version  of  "  The  Last  Leaf  "  is  printed  by 
Mr.  Morse  in  the  Life  and  Letters,  vol.  ii,  pp.  98-100. 

POEMS,    FAMILY   EDITION 

Poems,  Family  Edition.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mif- 
flin &  Co.,  1887. 

BEFORE  THE  CURFEW,  AND  OTHER  POEMS 

Before  the  Curfew  |  and  Other  Poems  | 
Chiefly  |  Occasional  |  by  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  [Device]  |  Boston  and  New  York  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge  |  1888. 

16mo,  pp.  vi,  110.  Collation:  i,  title;  ii, 
copyright  and  imprint;  iii,  "At  my  Fireside" 
(verse),  dated  March  1,  1888;  iv,  blank;  v-vi, 
contents;   1-110,  poems. 

Contents  :  — 

Before  the  Curfew,  1829-18^2. 

A  Loving-Cup  Song,  1829-1883. 

The  Girdle  of  Friendship,  1829-1884. 

The  Lyre  of  Anacreon,  1829-1885. 

The  Old  Tune,  Thirty-sixth  Variation,  1829-1886. 

The  Broken  Circle,  1829-1887. 

The  Angel-Thief,  1829-1888. 

At  the  Saturday  Club. 

Benjamin  Peirce:  Astronomer,  Mathematician,  1829-1880. 

Our  Dead  Singer.    H.  W.  L. 


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To  James  Freeman  Clarke,  April  4,  1880. 

Two  Poems  to  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe  on  her  Seventieth 
Birthday,  June  14,  1882. 
I.  At  the  Summit. 
n.  The  World's  Homage. 

A  Welcome  to  Dr.  Benjamin  Apthorp  Gould. 

To  Frederick  Henry  Hedge. 

To  James  Russell  Lowell. 

To  John  Greenleaf  Whittier,  on  his  Eightieth  Birthday,  1887. 

Prelude  to  a  'N'olume  printed  in  Raised  Letters  for  the  Blind. 

Boston  to  Florence. 

At  the  Unitarian  Festival,  March  8,  1882. 

Poem  for  the  250th  Anniversary  of  Harvard  College. 

Of  these  poems,  two  —  "To  James  Freeman  Clarke"  and 
"Boston  to  Florence  "  —  had  already  appeared  in  collected  edi- 
tions, —  the  former  in  The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems,  and 
in  the  revised  Household  Edition  of  1887,  —  and  both  in  the 
Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881. 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of  Sampson  Low  &  Co. 

POEMS,   RIVERSIDE   EDITION 

The  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.  |  In  Three  Volumes  |  Volume  I  [II] 
[III]  I  [Device]  \  Boston  and  New  York  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge  |  mdcccxci. 

Crown  8vo;  pp.  x,  287;  x,  307;  viii,  294. 
Portrait  in  vol.  i.  Pp.  ix-x  of  vol.  i:  "To  my 
Readers." 

The  rearrangement  of  the  poems  which  was  made, 
under  Dr.  Holmes's  supervision,  for  this  edition,  was 
sadly  needed;  there  had  been  no  collected  edition  ap- 
proaching completeness  except  the  Household  and  the 
Handy  Volume,  and  the  successive  reissues  of  the  House- 
hold had  been  made  by  simply  adding  new  plates  for 
such  poems  as  had  been  published  since  the  last  pre- 
ceding issue.    Thus,  for  instance,  some  of  the  Poems  of 


[  157  ] 

the  Class  of  '29  were  printed  under  that  heading,  some 
under  Songs  of  Many  Seasons,  some  under  Before  the 
Curfew,  and  Other  Poems,  some  under  The  Iron  Gate, 
and  Other  Poems ;  while  some  other  unclassified  poems 
were  unaccountably  omitted  altogether. 

In  the  Riverside  the  following  new  categories  were 
made  up,  viz.:  Medical  Poems,  and  Readings  over  the 
Teacups;  while  the  Miscellaneous  Poems  (1830,  etc.)  of 
the  Household,  including  those  of  his  eariier  productions 
to  which  Dr.  Holmes  was  least  partial,  were  placed  at  the 
end  of  the  third  volume,  under  the  heading.  Verses  from 
the  Oldest  Portfoho. 

In  making  up  this  edition  some  poems  were  accident- 
ally omitted,  and  the  omission  is  noted  in  each  case  in 
the  first  part  of  this  bibliography. 

POEMS,    EDINBURGH,  1892 

Poetical  Works  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Edinburgh,  David  Douglas,  1892. 
4  vols.,  12mo. 

THE   ONE-HOSS  SHAY,  etc. 

The  One-Hoss  Shay  |  With  its  Companion 
Poems  I  How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet  |  &  | 
The  Broomstick  Train  |  by  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  with  Illustrations  by  |  Howard  Pyle  | 
[Device]  \  Boston  and  New  York  |  Houghton, 
Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge  |  m  dccc  xcii. 

8vo,   pp.    80;    rubricated   title-page,  frontis- 
piece, head-  and  tail-pieces,   and   about  sixty 
full-page  and  text  cuts.    Preface  by  the  author, 
dated  July,  1891. 
Printed  on  right-hand  page  only. 


[  158  ] 

The  Same.    Christmas  Edition. 
With  colored  illustrations. 

The  Same.     Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1905. 
Reprinted  from  new  plates,  with  illustrations  in  colors. 

DOROTHY    Q 

Dorothy  Q  [red  ]  |  Together  with  |  A  Ballad  of 
the  Boston  Tea  Party  |  &  |  Grandmother's 
Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle  |  By  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  [red]  \  with  Illustrations  by  |  Howard 
Pyle  I  [Device]  \  Boston  and  New  York  |  Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge  |  M  dccc  xcii. 

12mo,  pp.  131.  Half-titles  for  each  of  the 
three  poems;  many  full-page  cuts,  borders, 
vignettes,  etc. 

250  copies  printed  on  large  paper.    Issued  in  England 
with  imprint  of  Gay  and  Bird. 

POEMS,    CAMBRIDGE    EDITION 

The  Complete  |  Poetical  Works  of  |  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  |  Cambridge  Edition  |  [Cut 
of  the  ''  Gambrel-Roofed  Hou^e,"  Cambridge]  \ 
Boston  and  New  York  |  Houghton,  Mifflin 
and  Company  \  The  Riverside  Press,  Cam- 
bridge.  [1895.] 

8vo,  pp.  xxii,  352;  engraved  title-page; 
portrait.  Collation:  i,  title;  ii,  copyright;  iii, 
Publishers'  Note;  iv,  blank;  v-ix,  contents; 
X,  blank;  xi-xxi,  Biographical  Sketch,  by 
H.  E.  S[cudder];    xxii,  blank;   1-2,    "To   my 


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Readers  ;"  3-320,  poems;  321-344,  appendix; 
345-348,  index  of  first  lines;  349-352,  index 
of  titles. 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of  Sampson  Low  &  Co. 

The  arrangement  of  the  poems  follows  in  the  main 
that  adopted  in  the  Riverside  Edition;  but  the  poems 
printed  at  the  end  of  the  third  volume  of  that  edition  are 
here  relegated  to  the  Appendix,  and  printed  in  smaller 
type,  together  with  four  poems,  which  had  been  omitted 
altogether  in  both  Riverside  and  Household  Editions, 
namely:  "A  Souvenir,"  "The  Dying  Seneca,"  "The 
Last  Prophecy  of  Cassandra,"  and  "To  my  Compan- 
ions." The  Appendix  also  contains  (pp.  333-337)  the 
long  poem,  "Astrsea,"  except  those  portions  which  have 
always  been  printed  under  separate  titles  (see  p.  129). 
Also  (pp.  337-341)  Notes  and  Addenda,  the  latter  cate- 
gory including  the  Report  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Ploughing  Match  (at  the  Anniversary  of  the  Berkshire 
Agricultural  Society,  1849),  and  a  list  of  the  Members 
of  the  Class  of  '29.  Also  a  Chronological  list  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  poems,  in  which,  "whenever  the  first  appear- 
ance of  a  poem  has  been  not  precisely  determined,  the 
title  is  printed  in  italic  under  the  year  when  the  volume 
first  including  it  was  published." 

Li  this  edition  are  collected  for  the  first  time :  (1)  a  num- 
ber of  poems  which,  for  some  reason  not  explained,  were 
omitted  from  all  previous  issues  of  the  Household  as  well 
as  from  the  Riverside  Edition,  —  "  An  Impromptu  at 
the  Walcker  Dinner,"  etc.  (1863),  "Hymn  for  the  Great 
Central  Fair  in  Philadelphia"  (1864),  "Harvard"  (1880), 
"Youth"  (1882),  "Poem  read  at  the  Dinner  given  to  the 
Author  by  the  Medical  Profession  of  New  York  City" 
(1883),^  and  "But  One  Talent"  (1890);  (2)  those  poems 
which  were  written  after  the  publication  of  the  Riverside 
Edition,  —  "  In  Memory  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier," 
*  Added  to  the  group  of  Medical  Poems. 


[160]     ^ 

**To  the  Teachers  of  America,"  "Hymn  for  the  25th 
Anniversary  of  the  Reorganization  of  the  Boston  Y.  M. 
C.  U.,"  and  "Francis  Parkman;"  and  (3)  a  hitherto 
neglected  bit  from  the"  Autocrat,"  namely,  the  "Prelude  " 
to  "Parson  Turell's  Legacy,"  which,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, was  the  only  part  of  that  poem  which  the  Pro- 
fessor was  allowed  to  read. 

POEMS,    CABINET   EDITION 

Complete  Poetical  Works.  Cabinet  Edition. 
Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co,,  1899. 

16mo,  pp.  xii,  453;   portrait. 

This  edition  contains  everything  that  is  included  in 
the  Cambridge  Edition,  except  the  head-notes  and  the 
last  two  divisions  of  the  Appendix,  namely,  the  Notes 
and  Addenda,  and  the  Chronological  List. 

POEMS,   LIBRARY  EDITION 

The  Complete  |  Poetical  Works  |  of  |  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  |  Library  Edition  |  Illus- 
trated with  Photogravures  |  [Device]  \  Boston 
and  New  York  |  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Com- 
pany I    The    Riverside    Press,    Cambridge  | 

MDCCCC. 

Printed  from  plates  of  the  Household  Edition,  with 
additional  half-titles  (disregarded  in  pagination)  before 
most  of  the  groups  of  poems,  and  before  the  Notes  and 
the  Index.  On  the  verso  of  each  of  the  half-titles,  with 
two  exceptions,  is  a  small  cut.  On  page  88  (blank  in  the 
Household  Edition)  is  the  dedication  of  Songs  in  Many 
Keys,  originally  printed  in  the  volume  of  that  name. 


[  161  ] 

II 

PROSE 

BOYLSTON   PRIZE   DISSERTATIONS 

BoYLSTON  I  Prize  Dissertations  |  for  the 
Years  1836  and  1837.  |  By  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  M.  D.,  (  Fellow  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Medical  Society,  and  Member  of  the  | 
Societe  Medicale  d' Observation  of  Paris.  |  Bos- 
ton: I  Charles  C  Little  and  James  Brown,  \ 

M.  DCCC.  XXXVIII. 

8vo,  pp.  xvi,  371;  map.  On  p.  v  is  the  dedi- 
cation: "To  P.  Cha.  A.  Louis,  Doctor  in  Medi- 
cine of  the  Faculties  of  Paris  and  St.  Petersburg, 
President  of  the  Societe  Medicale  d' Observa- 
tion, etc.,  in  the  Recollection  of  his  invaluable 
instruction  and  unvarying  kindness.  These 
Essays  are  respectfully  inscribed."  Pp.  vii-ix, 
preface;  xi-xiv  [analytical]  table  of  contents; 
1-132,  Facts  and  Traditions  respecting  the 
Existence  of  Indigenous  Intermittent  Fever  in 
New  England.  Perseverando.  133-243,  On  the 
Nature  and  Treatment  of  Neuralgia.  "Read 
not  to  contradict  and  confute,  nor  to  believe 
and  take  for  granted,  nor  to  find  talk  and  dis- 
course, but  to  weigh  and  consider."  245-371, 
On  the  Utility  and  Importance  of  Direct  Ex- 
ploration in  Medical  Practice.  Inter  labores  et 
taedia. 
Each  dissertation  has  its  own  half-title. 


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HOM(EOPATHY,AND  ITS  KINDRED  DELUSIONS 

HOMCEOPATHY,  |  AND   ITS  KiNDRED   DELUSIONS :  | 

Two  Lectures  |  delivered  before  the  Boston 
Society  for  the  |  Diffusion  of  Useful  Know- 
ledge. I  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  | 
KOLTTvov  (TKidf;  ovap.  I  Boston:  I  William  D,  Tick- 
nor,  I  1842. 

Pamphlet,  12mo,  pp.  viii,  72.  Preface  on 
pp.  iii-v,  with  3  lines  of  errata  at  foot  of  p.  v. 
First  Lecture,  pp.  1-27;  Second  Lecture,  pp. 
28-72.   No  headlines. 

THE  CONTAGIOUSNESS  OF  PUERPERAL  FEVER 

The  I  Contagiousness  |  of  Puerperal  Fever  | 
by  Oliver  W.  Holmes,  M.  D.  |  Read   before 
the  Society  for  Medical  Improvement,  and  pub- 
lished at  the  Request  of  the  Society.  [1843.] 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  28. 

Reprinted  from  the  New  England  Quarteriy  Journal 
of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  April,  1843,  vol.  1,  pp.  503-530. 

Puerperal  Fever,  |  as  a  |  Private  Pesti- 
lence. I  By  I  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  | 
Parkman  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physio- 
logy at  Harvard  University.  |  Boston :  |  Ticknor 
and  Fields,  |  m  dccc  lv. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  60.  On  p.  3  is  the  dedi- 
cation: "To  the  Medical  Students  and  Gradu- 
ates of  Harvard  University;"  p.  4,  "The  Point 
at  Issue;"  pp.  5-M,  introduction;  pp.  25-60, 
"The  Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever" 
(April,  1843). 


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THE  POSITION  AND  PROSPECTS  OF  THE 
MEDICAL  STUDENT 

The  I  Position  and  Prospects  [  of  |  the 
Medical  Student.  |  An  Address  |  delivered 
before  the  |  Boylston  Medical  Society  of 
Harvard  University,  |  January  12,  1844,  |  by 
Oliver  W.  Holmes,  M.  D.  |  Published  at  the 
request  of  the  Society.  |  Boston :  |  John  Putnam^ 
Printer  |  1844. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  28,  including  title. 

REPORT  OF  THE    COMMITTEE  ON  MEDICAL 
LITERATURE 

Report  of  the  Committee  on  Medical  Lit- 
erature. (Extracted  from  the  Transactions  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  vol.  i.) 
[1847.] 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  40;  slip  attached  with  list 
of  errata. 

The  report  is  signed  (p.  40)  by  Dr.  Holmes,  Enoch 
Hale,  G.  C.  Shattuck,  Jr.,  D.  Drake,  John  Bell,  Austin 
Flint,  and  W.  Selden. 

INTRODUCTORY   LECTURE,  1847 

An  I  Introductory  Lecture,  |  delivered  at  the  | 
Massachusetts  Medical  College,  |  November  3, 
1847.  I  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  | 
Parkman  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physio- 
logy. I  [Device]  \  Boston:  |  William  D.  Ticknor 
&  Company,  \  corner  of  Washington  and  School 
Streets.  |  m  dccc  xlvii. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  38,  with  1  blank  leaf  at 


[164] 

end.  Collation:  1,  title;  2,  copyright,  and  im- 
print (Printed  by  I.  R.  Butts,  2  School  Street, 
Boston) ;  3,  correspondence  relative  to  printing 
the  lecture;  4,  blank;  5-38,  lecture. 

On  the  outside  of  the  back  cover  is  an  advertisement 
of  "medical  books  published  by  William  D.  Ticknor  & 
Co.,  Medical  Booksellers." 

THE  BENEFACTORS  OF  THE  MEDICAL  SCHOOL 

The  I  Benefactors  I  of  the  |  Medical  School 
OF  Harvard  University;  |  with  a  Biographical 
Sketch  I  of  the  |  Late  Dr.  George  Parkman.  | 
An  I  Introductory  Lecture,  |  delivered  at  the  | 
Massachusetts  Medical  College,  |  November  7, 
1850,  I  by  I  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  | 
Parkman  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physio- 
logy. I  Boston:  |  Ticknor,    Reed,    and    Fields,  \ 

MDCCCL. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  38,  viz.:  1,  title;  2,  copy- 
right and  imprint;  3,  correspondence  with 
regard  to  printing  the  lecture;  4,  blank;  5-37, 
lecture;   38,  blank. 

ORATION  BEFORE  THE  NEW  ENGLAND 
SOCIETY 

Oration  |  delivered  before  the  New  Eng- 
land Society,  I  in  the  City  of  New  York,  | 
by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.,  |  at  their 
Semi-centennial  Anniversary,  |  December  22, 
1855.    [1856.] 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  48,  including  cover. 


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VALEDICTORY   ADDRESS,    1858 

Valedictory  Address,  |  delivered  to  the  |  Medi- 
cal Graduates  of  Harvard  University,  |  at  the  | 
Annual  Commencement,  |  Wednesday,  March 
10,  1858.  I  By  Oliver  V^endell  Holmes,  M.  D.  | 
Parkman  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physio- 
logy. I  Re-printed  from  "The  Boston  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal."  |  Boston:  |  David  Clapp 
.  .  .  184  Washington  Street.  |  Medical  and 
Surgical  Journal  Office.  |  1858. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  15,  including  title. 

THE  AUTOCRAT  OF  THE  BREAKFAST- 
TABLE 

[For  other  editions  see  Appendix,  pp.  312,  313,  infra.] 

The  Autocrat  [red]  \  of  the  |  Breakfast- 
Table,  [red]  I  Every  man  his  own  Boswell. 
I  Boston:  |  Phillips,  Sampson  and  Company, 
[red]  I    M  Dccc  lviii. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  viii,  373,  4  of  advertisements 
(1  each  at  front  and  back  and  on  inside  of  each 
cover),  4  blank  pages  in  front  and  5  at  back. 
Plates;  engraved  title  (not  included  in  pagina- 
tion) between  the  half-title  and  the  title  tran- 
scribed above.  Collation:  i,  half-title;  ii,  blank; 
iii,  title;  iv,  copyright,  and  imprint  (Riverside, 
Cambridge:  Stereotyped  and  Printed  by  H.  O. 
Houghton  and  Company);  v-viii,  "The  Auto- 
crat's Autobiography,"  dated  Nov.  1,  1858; 
1-364,  text;   365-373,  index. 

Motto  on  title  printed  in  small  type.    Other  copies  of 
the  same  date  have  no  engraved  title,  and  are  probably 


[166] 

of  a  later  issue.  Another  impression  from  the  same  plates 
was  made  in  1859.  Of  this  issue  some  copies  were 
printed  on  large  paper,  but  none  of  the  first  issue  are 
known  to  have  been  so  printed.  In  later  impressions  the 
imprint  was  omitted  from  the  copyright  page,  and  the 
motto  on  the  title-page  printed  in  small  capitals. 

The  original  manuscript  of  the  "  Autocrat "  is  in  the 
collection  of  J.  P.  Morgan,  Esq. 

The  Same.    By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Author 
of  "Astrsea"  and  other  Poems.   [Motto  ^]  Edin- 
burgh, Alexander    Strahan  &    Co,;     London, 
Hamilton,  Adams  &  Co.,  1859. 
8vo,  pp.  302. 

The   Same.      London,   Alexander  Strahan,    148 
Strand;  Sampson  Low,  Son,  &  Marston,  Lud- 
gate  HUl,  1865. 
8vo,  pp.  200. 

The  Same.    Boston,  Ticknor  and  Fields,  1865. 
32mo,  pp.  vi,  395;  portrait.   Pp.  iii-vi,  "The 
Autocrat's   Autobiography;"    pp.   381-395,  in- 
dex, with  separate  half-title. 
Blue  and  Gold  Edition. 

The  Same.  With  illustrations  by  J.  G.  Thomson. 
London,  Alexander  Strahan,  5Q  Ludgate  Hill, 
1865. 

8vo,  pp.  xii,  329. 

The  Same.  With  an  Introduction  by  George 
A.  Sala.     London,  Chatto  and  Windus,  1875. 

^  "  Aqui  esta  encarrada  el  alma  del  licenciado  Pedro  Grarcias." 

GUBlas. 


[  167] 

24mo,  pp.  iii-vi,  9-235,  and  32  of  advertise- 
ments at  end.   Introduction  on  pp.  v-vi. 

Dr.  Holmes's  preface  and  "The  Autocrat's  Autobio- 
graphy" are  omitted. 

The  Same.  New  and  Revised  Edition,  with  il- 
lustrative notes.  Boston,  Houghton^  Mifflin 
&  Co.,  1883. 

8vo,  pp.  X,  321;  portrait,  opposite  title; 
copyright,  1858  and  1882.  On  pp.  iii-v  is  a 
new  preface:  "To  the  Readers  of  the  Auto- 
crat of  the  Breakfast-Table,"  dated  Beverly 
Farms,  Aug.  29,  1882;  pp.  vii-ix,  "The  Auto- 
crat's Autobiography;"  x,  blank. 
The  "  illustrative  notes  "  are  foot-notes.  * 

The  Same.  Author's  Edition.  Edinburgh,  David 
Douglas,  1883. 

2  vols.,  12mo;  vol.  i,  pp.  212;  vol.  ii,  pp.  256. 

This  edition  contains,  besides  the  "  new  preface "  of 

this  year  ("  To  the  Readers  of  the  Autocrat")  and  "  The 

Autocrat's  Autobiography,"  "  An  After-Breakfast  Talk," 

printed  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  January,  1883. 

The  Same.  Stereotyped  and  printed,  with  the 
permission  of  the  author,  by  the  American 
Printing  House  for  the  Blind  [Louisville,  Ky.], 
1885. 

2  vols.,  4to;  printed  in  raised  letters  on  one 
side  of  the  leaf.  Vol.  i,  pp.  1-144;  vol.  ii,  pp. 
145-261;  including  title  in  each  case. 

The  Same.  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Author 
of  *'  The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,^  and 
"The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table."    London, 

*  Quotation  marks  omitted  here. 


[168] 

Walter  Scott,   24,   Warwick  Lane.      Toronto, 
W.  J,  Gage  &  Co,   [1889.] 

12mo,  pp.  viii,  271,  and  8  of  advertisements. 
**The  Autocrat's  Autobiography"  on  pp.  v-vii. 
Camelot  Series,  vol.  44. 

The  Same.    Boston,   Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co, 
[c.  1889.] 

2  vols.,  16mo;  vol.  i,  pp.  x,  1-203  (half-title 
omitted  in  pagination) ;  vol.  ii,  pp.  iv,  205-442. 
Title-pages  set  in  Old  Enghsh  type,  within 
decorative  borders.  In  vol.  i,  the  preface  of 
1882,  "To  the  Readers,"  etc.,  occupies  pp. 
iii-vi,  and  the  "Autobiography,"  pp.  vii-x.  In 
vol.  ii,  the  index  occupies  pp.  433-442. 

Birthday  Edition.  Printed  from  new  plates.  The  "  Pro- 
fessor," the  "Poet,"  and  "Over  the  Teacups"  were 
published  in  the  same  style,  the  whole  under  the  title  of 
"  The  Breakfast-Table  Series."  About  300  copies  were 
bound  uncut,  with  paper  labels. 

The  Same.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,, 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  x,  321;  portrait;  preface  to 
the  new  edition,  dated  Beverly  Farms,  July  28, 
1891,  pp.  viii-ix. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  i,  printed  from  plates  of  the 
edition  of  1883. 

The  Same.    Boston  and  New  York,   Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1892. 

8vo,  pp.  xiv,  321;  portrait  and  many  illus- 
trations;  list  of  illustrations,  p.  xiii. 

Vol.  i  of  the  Standard  Library  Edition;  printed  from 
the  same  plates  as  the  Riverside  Edition. 


[  169  ] 

The  Same.  The  Autocrat  [red]  \  of  the  Break- 
fast-Table I  by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  [red]  \ 
with  Illustrations  by  |  Howard  Pyle  |  I  [n][recZ]  | 
[Device]  |  Boston  and  New  York  |  Houghton, 
Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge  |  M  dccc  xciii. 

2  vols.,  8vo;  pp.  xvi,  218;  vi,  219-474;  the 
pagination  is  continued  through  the  two  vol- 
umes. Illustrated  with  photogravures,  head- 
and  tail-pieces  and  numerous  cuts.  Collation  of 
vol.  i:  v-vi,  list  of  illustrations;  vii-x,  preface 
of  1882;  x-xii,  preface  of  1891;  xiii-xvi,  "The 
Autocrat's  Autobiography." 

HoHday  Edition;   printed  from  new  plates.  Issued  in 
England  with  imprint  of  Gay  and  Bird. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,, 
1895. 

Riverside  Literature  Series,  no.  81.    Printed  from  the 
same  plates  as  the  Riverside  Edition. 

The  Same.  Boston,  New  York,  and  Chicago, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1896. 

12mo;  portrait.  Printed  from  the  plates  of 
the  Riverside  Edition,  with  new  title-pages  and 
notes.  Panel  advertisement  of  Dr.  Holmes's 
works  preceding  frontispiece,  and  32  pp.  of 
advertisements  at  end. 
Riverside  School  Library. 

The  Same.    Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1898. 
Crown  8vo;   portrait. 

Cambridge  Classics.    Printed  from  the  same  plates  as 
the  Riverside  Edition. 


[170]     ,, 

The  Same.  "Reprinted from  the  original  edition." 
Chicago,  W.  B.  Conkey  Co.,  1900. 
16mo,  pp.  341. 

The  Same.  With  an  Introduction  by  Richard 
Burton.  New  York,  Thomas  Y,  Crowell  &  Co., 
1900. 

16mo,  pp.  329.  Rubricated  half-title,  with 
device. 

The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin    &  Co., 
1902. 
16mo. 
Handy  Volume  Edition.  Printed  from  the  plates  of  the 
Birthday  Edition.    The  "new  preface"  written  for  the 
Riverside  Edition  is  omitted. 

The  Same.  With  illustrations  by  H.  M.  Brock. 
London,  J.  M.  Dent  &  Co.,  1902. 

12mo,  pp.  xxii,  318;  frontispiece  and  many 
full-page  and  text  cuts.  Title-page  in  blue  and 
brown,  inclosed  in  an  ornamental  design  in 
brown;  device  in  centre  is  a  tea-set  in  blue. 

An  American  edition  of  500  copies  was  made  from 
the  same  plates,  bearing  the  imprint  of  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  in  addition  to  that  of  Dent.  It  also  has  a 
copyright  page  (vi),  which  is  not  in  the  English  copies. 

Reissued  in  London  and  Boston  in  1906;  in  this  issue 
the  title  is  printed  on  the  title-page,  "Autocrat  at  the 
Breakfast-Table." 

The  Same.  With  an  Introduction  by  Gilbert 
K.  Chesterton.  London,  Blackie  &  Son,  U. 
[1904.] 

16mo,  pp.  X,  390;  portrait;  title  set  in  orna- 
mental border;    running  heads  printed  in  red 


[  171  ] 

throughout.  Introduction,  pp.  iii-x;  "The 
Autocrat's  Autobiography,"  pp.  1-4;  Notes; 
prepared  by  E.  H.  Blakeney,  M.  A.,  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge,  pp.  349-390. 

TRANSLATION 

Der  Tisch-Despot.  Von  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Deutsch  von  L.  Abenheim.     Stuttgart,  Verlag 
von  Aug.  Berth,  Auerbach. 
12mo,  pp.  431. 

The  translation  is   preceded  by  an  unsigned  poem. 
There  is  no  indication  of  the  date  of  publication. 

THE   PROFESSOR  AT  THE   BREAKFAST- 
TABLE 

The  Professor  |  at  the  |  Breakfast-Table;  | 
with  the  I  Story  of  Iris.  |  By  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  |  Author  of  "The  Autocrat  of  the 
Breakfast-Table."  |  Boston:  |  Ticknor  and 
Fields.  I  M  Dccc  lx.  [c.  1859.] 

12mo,  pp.  iv,  410;  index,  pp.  405-410. 
Some  copies  were  printed  on  large  paper,  but  such 
copies  are  very  rare. 

The  Same.  London,  Sampson  Low,  Son,  &  Co., 
1860. 

8vo,  pp.  286. 

The  Same.    London,  John  Camden  Hotten. 
12mo,  pp.  252. 

The  only  indication  of  the  date  is  an  advertisement  of 
new  books  for  1872  at  the  back  of  the  volume. 

The  Story  of  Iris.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.  |  Boston:  |  James  R.  Osgood  and  Com- 


[  172  ]  , 

Tpany^  \  late  Ticknor  &  Fields,  and  Fields,  Os- 
good &  Co.  I  1877. 

32mo,  pp.  108,  and  4  of  advertisements ;  also 
advertisements  on  inside  of  both  covers  and  on 
leaves  facing  them. 

The  I  Professor  |  at  |  the  Breakfast-Table  ;  | 
with  I  The  Story  of  Iris.  |  [Device]  \  Boston:  j 
Houghton,  Osgood  and  Company.  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge.  |  1880. 

8vo,  pp.  ii,  410.  Panel  advertisement  oppo- 
site title;  index,  pp.  405-410. 

Printed  from  plates  of  the  first  edition. 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table. 
Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1888. 

12mo,  pp.  viii,  332.  Preface  to  new  edition, 
dated  Nov.,  1882,  pp.  v-vii;  index,  pp.  321- 
332. 

The  Same.  Author's  Edition.  Edinburgh,  David 
Douglas,  1883. 

2  vols.,  12mo,  pp.  260  and  227. 
Uniform  with  the  "  Autocrat "  and  "  Poet." 
The  same  publisher  also  issued  in  this  year  an  edition 
in  one  volume,  8vo,  pp.  vi,  410. 

The    Professor    at    the    Breakfast-Table 
with  the  Story   of  Iris.    Authorized   Edition. 
Bemhard  Tau^hnitz,  1883. 
Leipzig,  12mo,  pp.  336. 

Selections  from  |  The  Professor  |  at  the  |  Break- 
fast-Table. I  By  I  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  | 
Author  of  "The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast- 
table."  I  Stereotyped    and    Printed  |  by    the  | 


[  I'^s  ] 

American   Printing  House   |   for   the   Blind.   | 
Louisville,  Kentucky.  |  1884. 

Quarto  of  156  leaves,  printed  in  raised  letters 
on  one  side  only;  pp.  1-78  are  printed  on  alter- 
nate right-hand  pages;  pp.  79-156  are  printed 
on  the  intervening  pages  turned  the  other  way. 

The   Professor    at    the    Breakfast-Table. 
London,  Walter  Scott,  1889. 
12mo. 
Camelot  Series.  Uniform  with  ^'Autocrat "  and  "  Poet." 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifftin  &  Co., 
1890. 

2  vols.,  crown  8vo;  pagination  continued 
through  the  two  volumes.  Title-pages  set  in 
Old  English  type,  within  decorative  borders. 

Birthday  Edition;  uniform  with  the  "Autocrat"  and 
the  other  volumes  of  the  "Breakfast-Table  Series." 
About  300  copies  were  bound  uncut  with  paper  labels. 

The  Professor  |  at  |  the  Breakfast-Table  | 
with  The  Story  of  Iris  |  by  |  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  [Device]  \  Boston  and  New  York  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge  |  M  Dcccc  xci. 

8vo,  pp.  X,  332.    Collation  is  as  follows:   i, 
half-title;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  copyright;  v-vii, 
preface  to  revised  edition  (Nov.,  1882);  viii-x, 
preface  to  new  edition,  dated  Beverly  Farms, 
Mass.,  June  18,  1891.    Index  on  pp.  321-332. 
Riverside  Edition,  vol.  ii. 
The  Same.  With  illustrations.  Boston,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1892. 
Standard  Library  Edition,  vol.  ii. 


[  174  ]    , 

The  Same.    Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton. 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1898. 
Crown  8vo. 

Cambridge  Classics.     Printed  from  the  plates  of  the 
Riverside  Edition. 

The  Same.    With  illustrations  by  H.  M.  Brock. 
London,  J.  M,  Dent  &  Co,,  1902. 
12mo,  pp.  xvi,  320. 
Uniform  with  the  same  publishers'    "  Autocrat."    Re- 
issued, in  London  and   Boston,   in  1906.   See  p.  170, 
supra. 

The  Same.  With  an  Introduction  by  Richard 
Burton.  New  York,  Thomas  Y.  Crowell  &  Co., 
1902. 

The  Same.     Boston,   Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1902. 
16mo. 
Handy  Volume  Edition ;  printed  from  the  plates  of  the 
Birthday  Edition. 

CURRENTS  AND  COUNTER-CURRENTS 
IN   MEDICAL   SCIENCE 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  |  in  Medi- 
cal Science.  |  An  |  Address  |  delivered  before 
the  I  Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  |  at  the 
Annual  Meeting,  |  May  30,  1860.  |  By  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  |  [Motto']  \  Boston:  | 
Published  by  Ticknor  and  Fields.  \  D.  Clapp, 
Printer  .  .  .  Med.  and  Surg.  Journal  Office.  | 

MDCCCLX. 

*  "  "Ncffwv  <f>{)ai€s  Irirpol.'"    "  Facilitate  magis  quam  violentia." — Hippo- 
crates. 


[175] 

8vo,  pamphlet,  pp.  56,  viz.:  1,  blank;  2, 
"  Extract  from  the  Records ; "  ^  3,  title ;  4,  copy- 
right; 5-43,  address;  44,  blank;  45-48,  notes; 
49-55,  list  of  deceased  members  and  obituaries;* 
56,  blank. 

There  are  copies  of  the  pamphlet  containing  only  48 
pages,  the  list  of  deceased  members  and  the  obituaries 
being  omitted. 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medi- 
cal Science.  |  With  |  Other  Addresses  and 
Essays.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  |  Park- 
man  Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology 
in  Harvard  University,  late  |  Physician  in  the 
Massachusetts  General  Hospital,  Member  of 
the  I  Society  for  Medical  Observation  at  Paris, 

♦  Fellow  of  the  |  Massachusetts  Medical  Soci- 
ety, Fellow  of  the  |  American  Academy  of  Arts 
and  Sciences.  |  Boston:  |  Ticknor  and  Fields,  \ 

MDCCCLXI. 

8vo,  pp.  [ii],  xii,  406,  and  18  of  advertise- 
ments. Collation:  [i],  title;  [ii],  copyright;  i, 
dedication:  "To  James  Jackson,  M.  D.,  my 
earliest  medical  teacher,  whose  friendship  and 
counsel  have  been  among  the  chief  pleasures 

^  At  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Fellows  of  the  Massachusetts  Medical 
Society,  held  on  Thursday,  May  31,  1860  — 

"Some  discussion  ensued  in  regard  to  the  Annual  Address,  when  the 
following  resolution,  offered  by  Dr.  H.  H.  Childs,  of  Pittsfield,  was  adopted 
by  a  vote  of  nine  in  the  affirmative  and  seven  in  the  negative:  — 

"Resolved,  'That  the  Society  disclaim  all  responsibility  for  the  senti- 
ments contained  in  this  Annual  Address.' 

"  A  true  copy, 

^  "Attest:  John  B.  AixET 

"  Recording  Secretary." 

2  "The  notices  of  Drs.  Perry  and  Roby  were  written  by  the  author  of 
the  foregoing  Address.  The  sources  of  the  others  are  indicated." 


[176] 

and  privileges  of  my  life,  these  Essays  are  affec- 
tionately and  respectfully  dedicated;"  ii,  blank; 
iii-ix,  preface ;  x,  blank ;  xi,  contents ;  xii,  blank. 
Contents: — 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  pp.  1-50. 

Homoeopathy  and  its  Kindred  Delusions,  pp.  51-177. 

Some  more  Recent  Views  on  Homoeopathy.  A  Notice  of  the 
"  Homoeopathic  Domestic  Physician,"  pp.  179-188.  First 
appeared  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1857,  vol.  1,  pp. 
250-252. 

Puerperal  Fever  as  a  Private  Pestilence.  An  Essay  printed 
in  1843,  reprinted  with  additions,  1855,  pp.  189-278.  First 
appeared  in  the  New  England  Quarterly  Journal  of  Medi- 
cine and  Surgery,  April,  1843,  under  the  title  "  The  Con- 
tagiousness of  Puerperal  Fever." 

The  Position  and  Prospects  of  the  Medical  Student,  pp.  279- 
321. 

The  Mechanism  of  Vital  Actions,  pp.  323-382.  First  ap- 
peared in  the  North  American  Review,  July,  1857,  vol.  75, 
pp.  39-77. 

Valedictory  Address,  deUvered  to  the  Medical  Graduates  of 
Harvard  University,  at  the  Annual  Commencement, 
Monday,  March  10,  1858,  pp.  383-406.  First  appeared  in 
the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  March  25, 1858, 
vol.  58,  pp.  149-159. 

There  is  a  separate  half-title  to  each  essay. 

See  Medical  Essays,  injray  p.  189.  ' 

ELSIE   VENNER 

Elsie  Venner:  |  A  Romance  of  Destiny.  |  By 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  |  Author  of  "The  Auto- 
crat of  the  Breakfast-Table,"  etc.  |  In  Two  Vol- 
umes. I  Volume  I.  [II.]  I  Boston:  Ticknor  and 
Fields  I  MDCCCLXi. 

8vo;  vol.  i,  pp.  i-xii,  13-288;  vol.  ii,  pp.  i-iv, 
5-312.  Collation  of  vol.  i :  i,  blank;  ii,  list  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  works;  iii,  half-title;  iv,  blank;  v,  title; 


[  1'^'^  ] 

vi,  copyright  and  imprint;  vii,  dedication,  "To 
the  Schoolmistress  who  has  furnished  some  out- 
Hnes  made  use  of  in  these  pages  and  elsewhere, 
this  story  is  dedicated  by  her  Oldest  Scholar;" 
viii,  blank;  ix-x,  preface,  dated  January,  1861; 
xi-xii,  contents.    Vol.  ii  has  no  half-title. 

Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  **  The  Professor's 
Story,"  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  January,  1860,  to  April, 
1861. 

The  Same.    Authorized  Edition.    Leipzig,    Al- 
phons  Durr,  1862. 
8vo,  pp.  380. 

Elsie  Venner.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 

1883. 
^      12mo,  pp.  487.    On  pp.  vii-ix  is  "A  Second 

Preface,"  dated  Jan.  23,  1883. 

The  Same.     Boston,   Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  xvi,  487;   new^  preface,  dated 
Beverly  Farms,  Aug.  3,  1891,  pp.  xii-xiii. 
Riverside  Edition,  vol.  v. 

The  Same.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin    &  Co. 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.  Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  v. 

The  Same.   London,  Walter  Scott,  Limited,  Pa- 
ternoster Row.   [1895.?] 

8vo,  pp.  362  and  14  of  advertisements;  plate. 
Original  preface  on  p.  5,  and  "Second  Preface," 
dated  Jan.  23,  1883,  on  pp.  7-8.  Text  begins 
on  p.  11. 


[178] 

The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin   &  Co,, 
1898. 
Crown  8vo,  pp.  487. 

Cambridge  Classics.  Printed  from  plates  of  Riverside 
Edition. 

TRANSLATION 

E.-D.  Forgues  |  Elsie  Venner  |  La  Sorciere  a 
L'Ambre  |  Imitations  de  TAnglais  |  [Device]  \ 
Paris  I  Collection  Hetzel  |  —  J.  Hetzel  —  Librai- 
rie  Claye  —  1 18  Rue  Jacob. 
12mo,  pp.  320. 
The  translation  of  Elsie  Venner  is  on  pp.  1-150. 

A  dramatization  of  Elsie  Venner  was  attempted,  against 
Dr.  Holmes's  wish,  and  a  play  founded  on  the  novel  was 
brought  out  in  1865,  at  the  Boston  Theatre.  "  The  result 
was  absolute  failure."  * 

BORDER  LINES  OF  KNOWLEDGE 
Border  Lines  of  Knowledge  |  in  some  Pro- 
vinces of  I  Medical  Science.  |  An  Introductory 
Lecture,  |  delivered  before  the  Medical  Class 
of  Harvard  University,  |  November  6th,  1861.  | 
By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  |  Parkman 
Professor  of  Anatomy  and  Physiology.  |  Boston : 
Ticknor  and  Fields,  |  1862. 

8vo,  pp.  ii,  80.  I'acing  the  title  is  an  adver- 
tisement of  Currents  and  Counter-Currents 
in  Medical  Science.  Collation:  i,  title;  ii,  copy- 
right; 1,  correspondence;  2,  blank;  3,  "To  the 
Reader;"  4,  blank;  5-78,  lecture;  79-80,  "The 
Two  Armies"  [poem]. 

^  Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of  O.  W.  H.,  vol.  i,  p.  257. 


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[180] 

It  is  impossible  to  say  how  many  copies  were  struck  off 
for  preservation  by  the  printers.  There  are  copies  in 
existence  which  omit  all  reference  to  the  number  printed, 
and  which  show  some  variations  in  the  text  of  the  oration, 
although  the  same  large  type  is  used.  In  these  copies 
there  is  a  half-title,  "Printed  by  order  of  the  Common 
Council,"  the  introductory  note  is  omitted,  and  the  oration 
is  printed  on  pp.  5-75. 

The  Same.  Philadelphia :  Printed  for  Gratuitous 
Distribution,  1863. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  30. 

LECTURE,    1863 
Lecture,  1863. 

See  Appendix,  p.  311,  infra, 

NEW  ENGLAND'S  MASTER-KEY 

New  England's  Master-Key,  1864. 
See  Appendix,  p.  312,  infra. 

POETRY   OF   THE   WAR 

Lecture  — 1865. 

4to,  pp.  54,  unnumbered;    signatures  1-14. 
No  title-page. 

The  words  "  Lecture  — 1865  "  appear  at  the  head  of  the 
first  page.  The  covers  are  of  blank  paper  and  no  au- 
thor's name  is  given.  But  the  Liberator  for  Dec.  15, 1865, 
published  an  abstract  of  the  lecture  as  having  been 
delivered  at  Music  Hall,  "in  the  course  of  Fraternity 
Lectures,"  by  Dr.  Holmes,  "on  Tuesday  evening  last." 
The  pamphlet,  which  is  printed  in  ver}^  large  type  (great 
primer),  is  exceedingly  rare,  only  2  copies  being  known. 
One  of  these,  in  perfect  condition,  with  Dr.  Holmes's 
autograph  on  the  cover,  is  in  the  collection  of  Mr.  S.  H. 
Wakeman. 


[  181  ] 

THE   GUARDIAN   ANGEL 

The  I  Guardian  Angel.  |  By  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  |  Author  of  "The  Autocrat  of  the 
Breakfast-Table,"  |  "Elsie  Venner,"  etc.  |  [De- 
vice] I  Boston:  |  Ticknor  and  Fields.  \  1867. 

8vo,  pp.  xii,  420.  Collation:  i,  title;  ii,  copy- 
right and  imprint;  iii,  dedication:  "To  James 
T.  Fields,  a  token  of  kind  regard  from  one  of 
many  writers  who  have  found  him  a  wise, 
faithful,  and  generous  friend;"  iv,  blank;  v-x, 
*'  To  my  Readers ;  "   xi-xii,  contents. 

The  Same.  London,  Sampson  Low,  Son,  & 
Marston,  Milton  House,  Ludgate  Hill,  1867. 

2  vols.,  12mo;  vol.  i,  pp.  xvi,  294,  and  2 
of  advertisements;  vol.  ii,  pp.  viii,  302,  and  26 
of  advertisements,  the  first  2  unnumbered. 

Reissued  in  1869,  in  Low's  Copyright  Series  of  Ameri- 
can Authors;  the  words  "New  Edition"  being  added  to 
the  title-page. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1883. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  xvi,  431.  New  preface,  dated 
1883.     Printed  from  new  plates. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  xvi,  431.  New  preface,  dated 
Beverly  Farms,  Aug.  7,  1891. 
Riverside  Edition,  vol.  vi. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.  Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  vi. 


[  182] 

TEACHING  FROM  THE   CHAm  AND  AT  THE 
BEDSIDE 

Teaching  from  the  Chair  and  at  the 
Bedside.  |  An  |  Introductory  Lecture  |  deliv- 
ered before  the  |  Medical  Class  of  Harvard 
University,  |  November  6,  1867.  |  By  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  |  Parkman  Professor  of  Ana- 
tomy and  Physiology.  |  Printed  at  the  request 
of  the  Class.  |  Boston:  |  David  Clapp  &  Son 
—  334  Washington  Street.  |  1867. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  46. 

Reprinted   in  Medical  Essays,  1883,  under  the  title 
"  Scholastic  and  Bedside  Teaching." 

MEDICAL  PROFESSION  IN  MASSACHUSETTS 

The  I  Medical  Profession  in  Massachu- 
setts. I  A  Lecture  |  of  a  |  Course  by  Members 
of  the  Massachusetts  |  Historical  Society,  | 
delivered  before  the  Lowell  Institute,  |  Jan. 
29,  1869.  I  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  Bos- 
ton :  I  Press  of  John  Wilson  and  Son,  \  1869. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  45. 

HISTORY  OF  THE   AMERICAN   STEREOSCOPE 

History  of  the  American  Stereoscope.  | 
Joseph  L.  Bates,  Boston.  |  Patented,  Aug.  13, 
1867.  I  From  the  Philadelphia  Photographer,  | 
January,  1869. 

Pamphlet,  16mo,  pp.  16,  including  title  and 
2  j)p.  of  advertisements. 

MECHANISM  IN  THOUGHT  AND  MORALS 

Mechanism  |  in  |  Thought  and  Morals.  |  An 


[  183  ] 

Address  |  delivered  before  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa 
Society  of  |  Harvard  University,  June  29,  1870.  | 
With  Notes  and  Afterthoughts  |  by  |  OHver 
Wendell  Holmes.  |  [Quotation  from  Pascal^] 
Boston  I  James  R.  Osgood  &  Co,  \  Late  Tick- 
nor  &  Fields,  and  Fields,  Osgood,  &  Co.  |  1871. 
8vo,  pp.  101. 
Reprinted  in  Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

VALEDICTORY  ADDRESS  AT  BELLEVUE 
HOSPITAL 

Valedictory  Address  delivered  to  the  Gradu- 
ating Class  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  College, 
March  2,  1871.   New  York,  1871. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  23. 

Reprinted  from  the  New  York  Medical  Journal,  April, 
1871,  vol.  13,  pp.  420-440.  Included  in  Medical  Essays, 
1883,  under  the  title  "  The  Young  Practitioner." 

THE    CLAIMS    OF   DENTISTRY 

The  Claims  of  Dentistry.  |  An  Address  |  de- 
livered at  the  I  Commencement  Exercises  |  of 
the  I  Dental  Department  |  in  Harvard  Univer- 
sity, I  February  14,  1872,  |  by  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  M.  D.,  |  Parkman  Professor  of  Ana- 
tomy. I  Boston:  |  Printed  by  Rand,  Avery  & 
Co.  I  1872. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  36. 

THE  POET  AT  THE  BREAKFAST-TABLE 

The  I  Poet  |  at  |  the  Breakfast-Table.  |  He 
Talks  with  his  Fellow-Boarders  |  and  the 
Reader.  |  [Device]  |  Boston:  |  James  R.  Osgood 

^  Car  il  ne  faut  pas  se  meconnaitre,  nous  sommes  automates  autant 
qu' esprit. 


[  184  ]  ,, 

and  Company,  \  late   Ticknor  &  Fields,  and 
Fields,  Osgood,  &  Co.  |  1872. 

12mo,  pp.  ii,  418;  frontispiece  (the  "Old 
Gambrel-Roofed  House");  index  on  pp.  413- 
418. 

The   Same.   Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1883. 

12mo,  pp.  iv,  360;  preface  dated  Dec,  1882. 

The  Same.   Author's  Edition.   Edinburgh,  David 
Douglas,  Castle  Street,  1884. 
2  vols.,  12mo,  pp.  ^5Q,  267. 

The  S.-vme.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1890. 

2  vols.,  16mo;  titles  set  in  Old  English  type, 
within  decorative  borders ;  pagination  continued 
through  the  two  volumes. 

Birthday  Edition.     About  300  copies  were  bound  un- 
cut, with  paper  labels. 

The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &   Co., 
1891. 

8vo,  pp.  viii,  360 ;  new  preface,  dated  Beverly 
Farms,  Aug.  1,  1891. 
Riverside  Edition,  vol.  iii. 

The  Same.    Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc. 
Standard  Library  Edition,  vol.  iii. 

The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin    &  Co., 
1902. 
16mo. 
Handy  Volume  Edition;  printed  from  plates  of  Birth- 
day Edition. 


[  185  ] 

The  Same.    With  illustrations  by  H.  M.  Brock. 
London,  /.  M.  Dent  &  Co.,  1902. 
12mo,  pp.  xii,  351. 
Uniform  with  the  same  publishers'  "Autocrat."   Reis- 
sued in  London  and  Boston,  in  1906.   See  p.  170,  supra. 

PROFESSOR   JEFFRIES   WYMAN 

Professor  Jeffries  Wyman.  |  A  Memorial  Out- 
line. I  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  Reprinted 
from    the   Atlantic    Monthly   for    November, 
1874. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  16,  including  covers. 

CRIME  AND  AUTOMATISM 

Crime  and  Automatism.  By  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes. 

Pamphlet,  Svo,  pp.  16;  n.  p.,  n.  d. 
Reprinted  from  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1875. 

ADDRESS  BEFORE   THE   BOSTON   MICRO- 
SCOPICAL  SOCIETY 

An  Address  |  delivered  at  the  |  Annual 
Meeting  of  the  Boston  Microscopical  | 
Society.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  M.  D.  j 
[Reprinted  from  the  Boston  Medical  and  Sur- 
gical Journal,  May  24,  1877.]  |  Cambridge:  | 
Printed  at  the  Riverside  Press.  |  1877. 
Pamphlet,  8vo. 

JOHN   LOTHROP   MOTLEY 

John  Lothrop  Motley.  |  A  Memoir.  |  By  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.  |  [Device]  \  Boston:  |  Hough- 
ton, Osgood  and  Company.  \  The  Riverside 
Press,  Cambridge.  |  1879.  [c.  1878.] 


[  186  ] 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  viii,  278;  portrait.  Collation: 
i,  title;  ii,  copyright,  and  imprint  [Electrotyped 
and  printed  at  the  University  Press,  Cambridge] ; 
iii,  introductory  note;  iv,  blank;  v-vii,  con- 
tents; viii,  blank;  1-224,  text;  225-278,  ap- 
pendices. 

Issued  also  on  large  paper.  The  introductory  note  is 
as  follows: — 

"  The  Memoir  here  given  to  the  pubUc  is  based  on  a 
biographical  sketch  prepared  by  the  writer  at  the  request 
of  the  Massachusetts  EQstorical  Society,  for  its  Proceed- 
ings. The  questions  involving  controversies  into  which 
the  Society  could  not  feel  called  to  enter  are  treated  at 
considerable  length  in  the  following  pages.  Many  details 
are  also  given  which  would  have  carried  the  paper  written 
for  the  Society  beyond  the  customary  limits  of  such 
tributes  to  the  memory  of  its  deceased  members.  It  is 
still  but  an  outUne  which  may  serve  a  present  need,  and 
perhaps  be  of  some  assistance  to  a  future  biographer." 

The  appendices  include :  (a)  An  account  of  the  Satur- 
day Club,  with  Dr.  Holmes's  poem,  '*  A  Parting  Health  " 
(pp.  226-228);  and  {e)  Proceedings  of  the  Mass.  Hist. 
Soc,  June  14,  1877,  including  Dr.  Holmes's  remarks 
(pp.  257-269). 

LETTER  TO   RABELAIS   CLL^ 

Letter  to  the  Honorary  Secretaries  of  the 
Rabelais  Club. 

Broadside,  pp.  4,  on  tinted  paper;  pp.  1  and 
4,  blank. 
**  For  Private  Circulation  only." 

Boston,  March  21st,  1880. 
Gentlemen: 

It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  accept  the  honour  you  have  con- 
ferred upon  me  in  choosing  me  as  a  member  of  the  Rabelais 
Club. 


[187] 

I  assure  you  it  is  very  pleasant  to  receive  such  a  kindly  token 
of  recognition  from  a  Society  of  gentlemen  whose  names  are  so 
distinguished  in  the  Hsts  of  artists  and  men  of  letters.  When  we 
get  the  Sub-Atlantic  Telephone  I  hope  to  exchange  a  few  words 
with  you  all.  I  ought  to  say  to  the  Club  that  I  have  a  special 
professional  interest  in  its  patron-Saint. 

In  the  year  1835,  coming  from  Marseilles  to  Paris,  I  was  de- 
layed a  short  time  in  Lyons,  and  strayed,  into  a  little  mouse-hole 
of  an  old  book  shop.  There  I  picked  up  two  or  three  bouquins, 
one  of  which  was  a  pudgy  little  volume  just  exactly  as  tall  as 
the  breadth  of  this  paper. 

The  title  was 

APHORISMO. 

The  bookbinder,  probably  a  teetotaller,  left  out  the  RUM  in 
lettering  the  back.    The  title  page  runs  thus: 

Aphorismo 

Rum  Hippocrates 

Sectiones 

Septem. 

* 

Ex  Franc.  Rabel.esi 

Recognitione 

*^  'P  'F  V 

Apud   Seb.  Gry- 

PHIUM   Lu- 
GDINI 

1545. 

I  will  borrow  from  the  dedicatory  epistle  prefixed  by  my 
learned  professional  brother.  Dr.  Francis  Rabelais,  to  this  edition 
of  the  Aphorisms  of  the  Father  of  Medicine,  a  few  words  ex- 
pressing my  good  wishes  for  the  Club. 

Utinam  ita  floreat  hsec  Societas  ut  in  ea  nostrates  episcopi  et 
omnes  alii  absolutissimum  probitatis,  modestise,  humanitatis 
exemplar,  veramque  ilium  virtutis  ideam  habeant,  in  quam 
contuentes  aut  ad  propositum  sibi  speculum  se  moresque  suos 
componant  aut  (quod  ait  Persius)  virtutem  videant,  intabes- 
cantque  relicta. 

I  am.  Gentlemen, 

Faithfully  yours, 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


[  188  ]   ., 

JONATHAN   EDWARDS 

Jonathan    Edwards  |  An    Essay.  |  (From    the 
International  Review.)  |  ^.  S.  Barnes   iSc  Com- 
party.  \  New  York  and  Chicago.   [1880.] 
Pamphlet,  sq.  8vo,  pp.  28. 
Reprinted  in  Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life,  1883. 

DEDICATORY    ADDRESS  —  BOSTON    MEDICAL 
LIBRARY  ASSOCIATION 

Dedicatory  Address  at  the  Dedication  of  the 
New  Building  and  Hall  of  the  Boston  Medical 
Library  Association,  19  Boylston  St.,  Dec.  3, 
1878.   Cambridge,  1881. 
Pamphlet,  4to,  pp.  21. 

Reprinted,  under  the  title  "  Medical  Libraries,'*  in 
Medical  Essays,  1883. 

MEDICAL  HIGHWAYS  AND  BY-WAYS 
Medical  Highways  and  |  By- Ways.  |  A  Lec- 
ture I  delivered  before  the  Students  of  the 
Medical  |  Department  of  Harvard  University,  | 
May  10,  1882.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 
M.  D.,  LL.D.,  I  Parkman  Professor  of  Ana- 
tomy. I  [Reprinted  from  the  Boston  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal.]  |  Cambridge:  |  Printed 
at  the  Riverside  Press.  |  1882. 
Pamphlet,  12mo,  pp.  32. 

The  Boston  Medical  Library  Association  owns  the 
original  ms.  of  this  lecture,  consisting  of  36  quarto  pages, 
with  the  title  "Some  Stepping-Stones  and  Stumbling- 
Blocks  in  the  History  of  Medicine."  The  opening  para- 
graph is  different,  and  there  are  other  trifling  variations 
from  the  text  as  printed. 


[189] 

FAREWELL   ADDRESS 

Farewell  Address  |  of  |  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  |  to  the  |  Medical  School  of  Harvard 
University,  |  Tuesday,  November  28,  1882.  | 
[Reprinted  from  the  Boston  Medical  and  Sur- 
gical Journal  of  |  December  7,  1882.]  |  Cam- 
bridge: I  Printed  at  the  Riverside  Press.  |  1882. 
Pamphlet,  12mo,  pp.  24. 

Reprinted,  under  the  title  "  Some  of  my  Early  Teachers," 
in  Medical  Essays,  1883. 

MEDICAL   ESSAYS 

Medical  Essays  [  1842-1882.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes.  |  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co.,  1883. 

8vo,  pp.  xii,  445.  Collation:  i,  title;  ii,  copy- 
right; iii,  contents;  iv,  blank;  v-x,  preface 
to  Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medi- 
cal Science,  with  Other  Addresses  and  Essays, 
1861,  except  the  last  paragraph;  xi-xii,  a 
"Second  Preface,"  dated  March  21,  1883. 
Contents:  — 

Homoeopathy  and  its  Kindred  Delusions,  pp.  1-102. 
The  Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever,  pp.  103-172. 
Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science,  pp.  173- 

208. 
Border  Lines  of  Knowledge  in  Some  Provinces  of  Medical 

Science,  pp.  209-272. 
Scholastic  and  Bedside  Teaching,  pp.  273-311. 
The  Medical  Profession  in  Massachusetts,  pp.  312-369. 
The  Young  Practitioner,  pp.  370-395. 
Medical  Libraries,  pp.  396-419. 
Some  of  my  Early  Teachers,  pp.  420-440. 
Appendix  [Notes  to  Currents  and  Counter-Currents],  pp.  441- 
445. 


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The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  xviii,  445;  new  preface, 
dated  Beverly  Farms,  Aug.  3,  1891,  pp.  xiii- 
xvii. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  ix;   printed  from  plates  of  first 
edition. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.    Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  ix. 

PAGES   FROM  AN   OLD  VOLUME   OF  LIFE 

Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  |  of  Life  |  A 
Collection  of  Essays  |  1857-1881  |  by  |  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  |  [Device]  \  Boston  |  Hough- 
ton, Mifflin  and  Company  \  New  York:  11 
East  Seventeenth  Street  |  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge  |  1883. 

8vo,  pp.  iv,  433,  and  16  of  advertisements. 

Contents:  — 
Bread  and  the  Newspaper.      Originally  appeared  in  the 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  346-352. 
My  Hunt  after  "the  Captain."    Originally  appeared  in  the 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1862,  vol.  10,  pp.  738-764. 
The  Inevitable  Trial.     Oration  dehvered  before  the  City 

Authorities  of  Boston,  July  4,  1863. 
The  Physiology  of  Walking.    Originally  appeared,  under  the 

title  "The  Hiunan  Wheel,  its  Spokes  and   Felloes,"    in 

the  Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1863,  vol.  11,  pp.  567-580. 
The  Seasons.    Originally  appeared  in  the  Atlantic  Almanac, 

1868,  pp.  2-13. 
Talk  concerning  the  Human  Body  and  its  Management. 

Originally  appeared  in  the  Atlantic  Almanac,  1869,  pp.  47- 

58. 


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Cinders  from  the  Ashes.    Originally  appeared  in  the  Atlantic 

Monthly,  Jan.,  1869,  vol.  23,  pp.  115-123. 
Mechanism  in  Thought  and   Morals.      Phi   Beta  Kappa, 

Harvard,  1870. 
The  Physiology  of    Versification.      Originally  appeared  in 

the  Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Jom-nal,  Jan.  7, 1875,  vol. 

92,  pp.  6-9. 
Crime  and  Automatism.    Originally  appeared  in  the  Atlantic 

Monthly,  April,  1875,  vol.  35,  pp.  466-481. 
Jonathan  Edwards.   Originally  appeared  in  the  International 

Review,  July,  1880,  pp.  1-28. 
The  Pulpit  and  the  Pew.    Originally  appeared  in  the  North 

American  Review,  Feb.,  1881,  vol.  132,  pp.  117-138. 

The  Same.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  [ii],  vi,  433;  preface,  dated 
Beverly  Farms,  Aug.  3,  1891. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  viii;  printed  from  plates  of  first 
edition. 

The    Same.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 

[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.    Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  viii, 

RALPH   WALDO    EMERSON 

American  Men  of  Letters.  |  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson.  |  By  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  |  [De- 
vice] I  Boston:  |  Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Com- 
pany. I  New  York:  11  East  Seventeenth  Street.  | 
The  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge.  |  1885. 
[c.  1884.] 

12mo,  pp.  [ii],  xii,  441;  portrait.  Collation: 
[i],  title;  [ii],  copyright  and  imprint;  i,  note;  ii, 
blank;  iii-viii,  contents;  ix-x,  blank;  xi,  half- 
title;  xii,  motto;  1-421,  text;  422,  blank;  423- 
441,  index. 


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On  p.  350,  first  line,  "  eightieth  '*  is  erroneously  printed 
for  "seventy-ninth."  ^ 

The  Same.   English  Copyright  Edition.  London, 
Keg  an  Paul   &  Co.,  1885. 
8vo,  pp.  viii,  441. 

A   MORTAL   ANTIPATHY 

A  Mortal  Antipathy  |  First  Opening  of  |  The 
New  Portfolio  |  by  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  | 
[Device]  \  Boston  and  New  York  \  Houghton, 
Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  Riverside  Press, 
Cambridge  |  1885. 

8vo,  pp.  iv,  307,  and  13  of  advertisements. 
Originally  appeared,  under  the  title  "  The  New  Port- 
folio," in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.  to  Dec.,  1885. 
See  Appendix,  p.  312,  infra. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  vi,  307;  new  preface,  dated 
Beverly  Farms,  Aug.,  1891. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  vii.     Printed  from  plates  of 
first  edition. 

The  Same.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.    Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  vii. 

OUR   HUNDRED    DAYS   IN   EUROPE 

Our  Hundred  Days  |  in  Europe  |  by  |  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  |  [Device]  \  Boston  and  New 

*  In  his  Memoir  of  Emerson  read  before  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society,  Jmie  11,  1885  (Proceedings,  2d  series,  vol.  2,  p.  107),  Rev.  J.  F. 
Qarke  says  of  this  work  of  Dr.  Hohnes:  "It  will,  I  think,  be  always  re- 
garded as  one  of  the  best  biographies  in  the  language." 


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York  [  Houghton^  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The 
Riverside  Press,  CamlDridge  |  1887. 

8vo,  pp.  vi,  329,  and  14  of  advertisements. 
On  p.  iii  is  this  dedication:  "To  my  Daughter 
Amelia  (Mrs.  Turner  Sargent),  my  Faithful 
and  Devoted  Companion,  this  Outline  of  our 
Summer  Excursion  is  affectionately  dedicated." 
Index,  pp.  321-329. 

The  index  is  preceded  by  the  following  note :  "  There 
are  various  ways  of  reading  a  book.  A  few  diligent 
persons  read,  mark,  learn,  and  inwardly  digest  ever}" 
page,  sentence,  word,  syllable.  Quick-witted  students 
glance  through  a  volume,  and  find  in  a  few  moments 
what  it  has  which  is  likely  to  be  of  interest  for  them. 
Some  run  their  eyes  rapidly  over  the  Index,  when  there 
is  one,  which  is  no  more  than  every  book  worth  print- 
ing is  entitled  to.  Some  are  satisfied  with  the  Table 
of  Contents.  Others  find  the  Title-page  as  much  as  they 
want,  and  there  are  many  books,  the  wall-flowers  of 
book-shops  and  libraries,  which  we  are  content  to  read 
by  the  lettering  on  their  backs,  without  calling  them  out 
from  their  places. 

"  The  following  Index,  made  for  me  under  the  direction 
of  my  publishers,  frightened  me,  when  I  first  looked  at 
it,  by  its  exhaustiveness  and  its  extent.  I  struck  out  a 
few  headings,  altered  a  few  others,  and  concluded  to 
let  it  stand  as  a  monument  of  industry  and  fidelity.  But 
I  must  say  that  so  long  a  tail  to  so  small  a  kite  is  almost 
without  a  precedent  in  my  literary  experience." 

Originally  appeared  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  July, 
1886,  March  to  Oct.,  1887.  The  first,  detached,"  install- 
ment, printed  under  the  title  "The  New  Portfolio  —A 
Prospective  Visit,"  fills  16  pages  of  the  magazine,  — 
only  a  small  fraction  being  used  for  the  introductory 
chapter  —  "A  Prospective  Visit"  —  of  the  volume. 


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The  early  issues  of  the  first  edition  may  readily  be  iden- 
tified, as  they  contain  an  extraordinary  error.  In  one  of 
the  paragraphs  of  "  A  Prospective  Visit "  reprinted  in  the 
published  book,  Dr.  Holmes  says  (p.  14  of  vol.  58  of 
the  Atlantic) :  "  Among  the  monuments  [in  Westminster 
Abbey],  one  to  my  namesake  Rear  Admiral  C.  H.,  a 
handsome  young  man  standing  by  a  cannon.  He  ac- 
companied Wolfe  in  his  expedition  which  resulted  in  the 
capture  of  Quebec.  Dryden  has  immortalized  him^  in 
the  Annus  Mirabilis,  as 

"'the  Achates  of  the  General's  fight.'" 

In  a  paper  entitled  "After  Our  Hundred  Days," 
printed  in  the  Atlantic  for  January,  1888  (vol.  61,  pp.  127- 
130),  we  find  the  following:  — 

"  After  the  '  Hundred  Days,'  the  story  of  which  has 
been  published  in  this  magazine  during  the  past  year, 
the  natural  sequel  would  seem  to  be  —  Waterloo.  I 
thought  I  had  experienced  that  catastrophe  when  my 
attention  was  called  to  an  anachronism  of  unusual 
dimensions  in  one  of  the  eariy  numbers.  It  is  made  all 
right  in  the  more  recent  copies  of  the  collected  papers, 
but  stands  uncorrected  in  many  of  those  first  printed.  .  .  . 

"How  was  it  possible  for  a  writer  with  some  half 
dozen  academic  gowns  on  his  back,  a  member  of  the 
Historical  Society  and  contributor  to  its  annals,  to  have 
spoken  of  the  companion  of  Wolfe  in  his  victory  at  Quebec, 
in  1759,  as  having  been  commemorated  in  Dryden's 
Annus  Mirabilis,  which  was  published  in  1667,  neariy  a 
century  eariier  ?  It  could  hardly  be  ignorance,  —  the 
pons  asinorum  is  not  long  enough  to  stretch  over  such 
an  interval." 

As  revised,  the  passage  reads  (p.  4):    "Among  the 
monuments,  one  to  Rear  Admiral  Charies  Holmes,  a 
descendant,   perhaps,  of   another  namesake,  inmiortal- 
ized  by  Dryden  in  the  *  Annus  Mirabilis '  as 
"  *  the  Achates  of  the  general's  fight.' 


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"He  accompanied  Wolfe  in  his  expedition  which  re- 
sulted in  the  capture  of  Quebec." 

Thus  is  afforded  a  certain  means  of  identifying  the  first 
issue  of  "Our  Hundred  Days."  The  same  article  ex- 
plains one  or  two  other  matters  in  this  volume,  but  the 
explanations  do  not  involve  changes  in  the  text. 

The  Same.  London,  Sampson  Low,  Marston, 
Searle,  &  Rivington,  Limited,  St.  Dunstan's 
House,  Fetter  Lane,  Fleet  Street,  E.  C,  1888. 
Royal  8vo,  pp.  vi,  316;  portrait.  Collation: 
i,  notice  of  limit  of  edition;  ii,  blank;  iii,  title; 
iv,  "works  by  the  same  author;"  v,  dedication; 
vi,  blank;  1-307,  text;  308-316,  index. 
Large  paper  edition,  limited  to  100  copies. 

The   Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,, 
1891. 
8vo,  pp.  viii,  301 ;  pp.  209-301,  General  Index. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  x;  from  new  plates.  The  Gen- 
eral Index  covers  this  and  the  preceding  nine  volumes,  — 
that  is,  all  the  collected  prose  works  except  the  Emerson 
and  the  Motley,  which  were  subsequently  printed  together 
as  vol.  xi  of  this  edition. 

The  Same.     Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co, 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.  Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  x. 

HENRY   J.   BIGELOW,  M.   D. 

Tribute  to  the  Memory  of  Henry  J.  Bige- 
Low,  M.  D.,  read  at  the  meeting  of  the  Society 
for    Medical    Improvement,    Nov.    4,     1890. 
Printed  at  the  University  Press,  1891. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  15,  including  title. 


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Reprinted  from  the  Proceedings  of  the  American 
Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  May  26,  1891,  vol.  26, 
pp.  339-351. 

The  original  ms.  of  this  address  is  now  among  the 
treasures  of  the  Boston  Medical  I^ibrary  Association,  pre- 
sented by  Dr.  Albert  N.  Blodgett  in  1903. 

OVER   THE   TEACUPS 

Over  the  Teacups  |  by  |  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
I  Author  of  "The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast- 
Table"  I  [Vignette]  \  Boston  and  New  York  | 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge  |  1891.  [c.  1890.] 
8vo,  pp.  319. 

On  p.  3  is  a  prefatory  note,  giving  the  history  of  the 
Henry  Flynt  teapot,  of  which  there  is  a  representation 
on  that  page. 

The  text  begins  on  p.  5,  with  some  introductory  matter 
explaining  the  fact  that,  while  the  first  installment  was 
published  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  in  March,  1888,  the 
second  did  not  appear  until  Jan.,  1890.  The  paragraph 
on  p.  6,  which  begins,  "  The  readers  who  take  up  this 
volume,"  is  the  true  beginning  of  the  book,  but  there  are 
some  changes  in  the  text  as  it  appeared  in  the  magazine. 
The  first  words  in  the  latter  are:  "The  readers  of  this 
magazine  may  recollect,"  etc.,  and  several  lines  at  the 
end  of  the  first  paragraph  are  omitted  in  the  published 
volume.  Passing  over  some  slight  changes  in  the  way 
of  revision  of  the  text,  the  passage  on  pp.  18-20  of  the 
volume,  beginning,  *'  I  referred,  when  first  reporting," 
etc.,  and  ending  with  the  italicized  phrase,  "6wf  it  did,'' 
does  not  occur  in  the  magazine,  where  its  place  is 
taken  by  this  brief  paragraph  only :  — 

"I  have  had  a  whole  chapter  of  curious  coincidences, 
some  of  which,  strange  as  they  were,  it  was  impossible 


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to  believe  were  in  any  causal  relation.  The  Grenville- 
Tudor  case  was  the  most  picturesque  among  them;  the 
Mary  Salter  case  the  most  unlikely  to  happen.  But  I  am 
afraid  I  have  told  them  already,  somewhere  or  other,  and 
I  will  say  nothing  about  them  at  this  time." 

The  first  lines  of  the  next  paragraph  read  in  the 
Atlantic:  "I  could  not  keep  my  own  personaUty  out 
of  this  paper;"  and  the  concluding  paragraph  of  the 
chapter  does  not  appear  there. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  second  chapter  the  Atlantic 
(Jan.,  1890)  reads:  "I  know  that  it  is  a  hazardous  ex- 
periment to  return  to  these  pages  where  in  days  long  past 
I  have  found  a  generous  welcome." 

This  first  edition  of  Over  the  Teacups  was  issued  in 
London  in  the  same  year,  with  the  imprint  of  Sampson 
Low  &  Co. 

The   Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,, 
1891. 

Crown  8vo,  pp.  [vi],  ii,  5-319. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  iv;  printed  from  the  plates  of 
the  first  edition. 

The  Same.    Boston,   Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co. 
[1892.] 

Illustrated  with  photogravures,  etc.  Standard  Library 
Edition,  vol.  iv. 

The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin   &  Co., 
1895. 

2  vols.,  16mo;  title-pages  set  in  Old  English 
type,  within  decorative  border;  pagination  con- 
tinued through  the  two  volumes. 

Birthday  Edition.  Uniform  with  other  volumes  of 
"  The  Breakfast-Table  Series."  About  300  copies  were 
bound  uncut,  with  paper  labels. 


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The  Same.    Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1902. 
16mo. 

Handy  Volume  Edition.     Printed  from  plates  of  Birth- 
day Edition. 

EMERSON  —  MOTLEY 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  |  John  Lothrop 
Motley  |  Two  Memoirs  |  by  |  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes  |  [Device]  \  Boston  and  New 
York  I  Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company  \  The 
Riverside  Press,  Cambridge.  [1892.] 

8vo,  pp.  xiv,  542.  Collation:  i,  half-title;  ii, 
blank;  iii,  title;  iv,  copyright;  v-xi,  contents; 
xii,  blank;  xiii,  half-title  [R.  W.  E.];  xiv,  note; 
1-325,  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson;  326,  blank; 
327,  half-title  [J.  L.  M.];  328,  note;  329-526, 
John  Lothrop  Motley;   527-542,  index. 

Riverside  Edition,  vol.  xi.  300  copies  printed  on  large 
paper.   This  volume  was  added  in  1892. 

The  Same.  Illustrated.  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co,,  1892. 

Standard  Library  Edition,  vol.  xi.  The  collation 
corresponds  with  the  last,  except  that  a  list  of  illustra- 
tions, with  verso  blank  (xiii-xiv),  follows  the  contents,  and 
the  R.  W.  E.  half-title  and  the  note  are  on  pp.  xv  and  xvi. 

whittier  commemoration 

Letter  to  William  H.  Baldwin,  Esq.,  read  at 
the   Whittier   Commemoration  at   the  Boston 
Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  Sunday,  Oct.  16, 
1892. 
Broadside,  pp.  4;   pp.  1  and  4  blank. 


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The  following  works,  believed  to  be  the  only 
ones  as  to  which  Dr.  Holmes  performed  the 
functions  of  editor,  are  placed  here  for  con- 
venience. 

Principles  of  the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medi- 
cine. By  Marshall  Hall,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.  L[ondon]  and 
E[dinburgh].  First  American  Edition.  Revised  and  much 
enlarged  by  Jacob  Bigelow,  M.  D.,  and  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  M.  D.  Boston,  Charles  C.  Little  and  James 
Brown,  1839. 

8vo,  pp.  iv,  724. 

Medical  Directions  written  for  Governor  Winthrop 
by  Ed:  Stafford,  of  London,  In  1643.  With  Notes,  by 
O.  W.  Holmes,  M.  D.  Reprinted  from  the  Proceedings 
of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  Boston :  Printed 
by  John  Wilson  and  Son,  22,  School  Street.  1862. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  23. 


COLLECTED   WORKS 

Riverside  Edition. 

13  vols.,  crown  8vo.  With  portraits,  notes  by 
Dr.  Holmes,  etc.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  & 
Co,,  1891. 

Vol.  I.    The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table. 

Vol.  n.  The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table. 

Vol.  in.    The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table. 

Vol.  IV.    Over  the  Teacups. 

Vol.  V.    Elsie  Venner. 

Vol.  VI.    The  Guardian  Angel. 

Vol.  Vn.    A  Mortal  Antipathy. 

Vol.  Vlll.    Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life. 

Vol.  IX.    Medical  Essays. 

Vol.  X.    Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe. 

Vol.  Xl-Xni.    Poems. 

In  1892  the  Memoir  of  Motley  and  the  Emerson  were 
printed  together,  and  the  volume  was  added  to  the  River- 
side Edition  as  vol.  xi,  the  numbers  of  the  three  volumes 
of  poems  being  changed  to  xii,  xiii,  and  xiv. 

Three  hundred  copies  of  this  edition  were  printed  on 
large  paper,  and  numbered. 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of  Sampson  Low  &  Co. 

Standard  Library  Edition. 

13  vols.,  8vo.  More  than  100  photogravures 
and  engravings  on  steel.  Boston,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1892. 

Printed  from  the  plates  of  the  Riverside  Edition.  The 
contents  of  the  different  volumes  are  the  same,  except 
that  the  poems  occupy  only  two  volumes,  xii  and  xiii. 
Vol.  xii  contains  the  poems  included  in  vol.  xi  and  the 


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first  158  pages  of  vol.  xii  of  the  Riverside  Edition.  After 
the  publication  of  Mr.  Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of 
O.  W.  H.,  those  two  volumes  were  added  to  the  Standard 
Library  Edition  as  vols,  xiv  and  xv. 

Artists'  Edition. 

13vols.,8vo.  Illustrated.  'Boston,  Houghton, 

Mifflin  &  Co,  [1892-1896.] 
Limited  to  750  copies.    Plates  of  the  Standard  Library 

Edition  printed  on  India  paper  and  mounted. 
Popular  Edition. 

8  vols.,  crown  8vo.    Boston  and  New  York, 

Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.  [1900.] 

Vol.  I.    The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table. 

Vol.  II.    The  Professor  at  the  Breakfa.st-Table. 

Vol.  III.    The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table. 

Vol.  rV.    Over  the  Teacups. 

Vol.  V.    Elsie  Venner. 

Vol.  VI.    The  Guardian  Angel. 

Vol.  VII.    A  Mortal  Antipathy. 

Vol.  VEIL    Poems. 

Printed  from  the  plates  of  the  Riverside  Edition,  except 

the  last  volume   (Poems),  which  is  identical  with  the 

latest  issue  of  the  Household  Edition.    The  volumes  are 

not  numbered  except  in  the  publishers'  catalogues. 

Autocrat  Edition.  The  Complete  Writings  of 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  with  Introductory  and 
Explanatory  Notes.  Boston  and  New  York, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1904. 

13  vols.,  crown  8vo;  uniform  in  contents  with 
the  Standard  Library  Edition.  Illustrated  with 
78  full-page  photogravures,  a  complete  series  of 
portraits  of  Dr.  Holmes,  etc. 

The  illustrations  are  in  great  measure  new.    The  edi- 
tion is  one  of  a  "  New  Library  Series.*' 


SELECTIONS   AND    COMPILATIONS 

The  Collegian  |  in  Six  Numbers  |  Cambridge :  | 
Published  by  Hilliard  and  Brown.  |  m  dccc  xxx. 

The  poems  which  Dr.  Holmes  contributed  to  this 
publication  are  given  in  the  list  printed  below.  Those 
preceded  by  an  asterisk  have  never  been  printed  in  any 
of  the  collections  of  his  poems;  those  preceded  by  a 
dagger  were  printed  in  the  collections  of  1836  and  1849, 
in  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition  of  1862,  and  in  the  Handy 
Volume  Edition,  1881,  but  were  omitted  from  the  House- 
hold Edition,  and  from  all  subsequent  collections  prior 
to  the  Cambridge  Edition  of  1895. 

The  Collegian  is  almost  invariably  found  in  the  shape 
of  a  bound  volume;  the  compiler  has  been  unable  to 
place  a  set  of  the  original  numbers,  although  he  is  in- 
formed that  such  sets  are  in  existence. 

No.  1.    February,  1830. 

*  Runaway  Ballads,  I  and  H,  pp.  11-12. 
The  Toad-Stool,  pp.  23-24. 

*  An  Enigma,  p.  43. 
No.  2.    March,  1830. 

f  The  Last  Prophecy  of  Cassandra,  pp.  55-56. 

*  Romance,  p.  60. 

*  Scene  from  an  Unpublished  Play,  pp.  61-62. 
No.  3.    April,  1830. 

To  a  Caged  Lion,  p.  103. 

The  Cannibal,  pp.  103-106. 

"I"  To  my  Companions,  pp.  122-123. 

The  Dorchester  Giant,  pp.  123-125. 

*  Scene  from  an  Unpubhshed  Play,  pp.  138-140. 
No.  4.    May,  1830. 

The  Spectre  Pig,  pp.  180-182. 
Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian,  p.  199. 

*  An  Invocation,  pp.  199-200. 


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No.  5.    June,  1830. 

The  Mysterious  Visiter,  pp.  212-214. 

The  Meeting  of  the  Diyads,  pp.  221-223. 
No.  6.    July,  1830. 

Evening,  by  a  Tailor,  pp.  255-256. 

*  Octosyllabics,  pp.  261-263. 

*  Scene  from  an  UnpubHshed  Play,  pp.  265-268. 
Stanzas,  p.  268. 

*  Moonshine,  p.  277. 

*  The  Old  Gentleman's  Story,  pp.  277-279. 

*  The  Graduate's  Song,  p.  282. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous,  pp.  285-286. 

*  The  Tail-Piece,  pp.  289-290. 

In  a  note  to  the  Proceedings  of  the  Harvard  Club  of  New 
York  City  at  the  dinner  of  February  21,  1878,  to  which  Dr. 
Holmes  contributed  the  two  sonnets,  "Christo  et  Ecclesiae"  and 
"Veritas,"  we  find  the  following:  "After  the  reading  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  explanatory  letter,  the  printed  copies  of  the  sonnets 
were  distributed  among  the  guests.  The  magazine  referred  to  in 
the  letter  was  the  Collegian,  a  journal  published  by  the  under- 
graduates of  the  Classes  of  1830  and  1831.  It  was  edited  by  a 
Club  consisting  of  William  H.  Simmons  ('Luke  Lockfast'), 
Robert  Habersham  ('  Frank  Airy '), Frederick  W.Brune  ('Arthur 
Templeton'),  of  the  Class  of  1831;  and  of  Theodore  W.  Snow 
('Geoffrey  La  Touche')  and  John  O.  Sargent  ('Charles  Sherry' 
and '  Francis  Hock ')  of  the  Class  of  1830.  Oliver  Wendell  Hohnes, 
of  the  Class  of  1829,  an  honorary  member  of  the  Club,  was  then 
a  law-student  at  Cambridge,  and  contributed  one  or  more  poems 
toevery  number  of  the  magazine;  beginning  with  his  'Runaway 
Ballads,' and  concluding  with  a  'L'Envoi'  [sic]  that  is  among 
the  most  charming  productions  of  his  pen,  though  it  has  never, 
we  think,  appeared  among  his  collected  poems. ^  We  should  not 
omit  to  mention  that  in  the  Collegian  is  to  be  found  the  first 
printed  composition  of  John  Lothrop  Motley,  of  the  Class  of 
1832. " 

None  of  Dr.  Holmes's  poems  are  signed,  but  a  note  to  the 
table  of  contents  says  that'all  the  titles  marked  with  an  asterisk 
are  by  the  same  contributor,  so  that  the  identification  is  not 
difficult.    Dr.  Holmes  tells  of  his  connection  with  this  "little 

^  It  will  be  found  in  full,  under  its  proper  title,  "The  Tail-Piece,"  supra, 
pp.  75-77. 


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monthly  concern"  in  a  letter  to  Phineas  Barnes,  printed  in 
Mr.  Morse's  Life  and  Letters,  on  pp.  67-69  of  vol.  i. 

In  the  Harvard  Magazine  for  Jan.,  1858  (vol.  4,  pp.  6-8), 
there  is  an  interesting  history  of  the  Collegian,  in  an  article  on 
"College  Magazines." 

The  I  Amateur  |  A   Journal  of   Literature   and 
the  Fine  Arts  |  Edited  by  Frederick  S.  HiU  | 
Vol.  1.  I  Boston.  I  Published  at  the   Office  of 
the  New  England  Galaxy.  |  1830. 
Engraved  title-page. 

Contains  the  following  poems  by  Dr.  Holmes,  an 
asterisk  marking  those  which  have  not  found  a  place 
in  any  of  the  collected  editions  of  his  poems. 

No.  1.    June  15,  1830. 

Annual  Exhibition  of  Paintings. 

*  The  Fish-Pieces,  pp.  12-13. 

*  The  Idle  Boys,  p.  13. 

*  The  Gipsy,  p.  13. 
The  Athenceum  Gallery. 

*  The  Departure,  p.  16, 

*  Portrait  of  a  Lady,  p.  16. 

*  Lady  Drinking,  p.  16. 
No.  2.    July  3,  1830. 

From  a  Bachelor's  Private  Journal,  p.  22. 
The  Athenceum  Gallery. 

*  Sunset  Scene,  p.  24. 
Poultry,^  p.  24. 

No.  3.    July  17,  1830. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman,  pp.  37-38. 

To  a  Blank  Sheet  of  Paper,  pp.  39-40. 
No.  4.    Aug.  7,  1830. 

*  The  Two  Shadows,  p.  59. 

State  Prison  Melodies:  ^  The  Treadmill  Song,  p.  59. 
No.  6.    Sept.  4,  1830. 

*  Poetry  of  Real  Life:  The  FHes,  p.  90. 

^  Printed  in  Poems,  1836,  and  subsequent  collections,  under  the  title 
"  A  Noontide  Lyric." 

'  This  portion  of  the  title  was  never  used  again. 


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*  Domestic  Thoughts,  p.  92. 

*  Infelix  Senectus,  p.  95. 

No.  7.    Oct.  1,  1830. 
The  Star  and  the  Lily,*  p.  105. 

*  Song  of  the  Henpecked,  p.  116. 
No.  16.    March  12,  1831. 

*  To  the  Lady  Opposite,  p.  244. 
No.  17.    March  26,  1831. 

The  Last  Leaf,  p.  261. 
No.  18.    April  9,  1831. 

Lines  by  a  Very  Interesting  Young  Man,^  p.  273. 

*  City  Madrigals:  by  the  Author  of  State  Prison  Melodies, 
p.  275. 

No.  19.    April  23,  1831. 

*To  my  Neighbour  Who  Sings  and  Plays  on  the  Flute, 
pp.  291-292. 

*  Scene  from  an  UnpubHshed  Comedy,  p.  294. 

This  list  includes  eight  poems  which  are  found  in  all  col- 
lected editions.  As  some  of  these  eight  are  signed  H.,  and 
others  O.  W.  H.,  the  compiler  has  attributed  to  Dr.  Holmes 
all  of  those  in  the  magazine  which  are  signed  in  either  way. 

The  Gleaner,  or  Selections  in  Prose  and  Poetry 
from  the  Periodical  Press.  Boston,  Office  of 
the  New  England  Galaxy,  1830. 

Contains  the  following  poems  by  Dr.  Holmes.  This  is, 
so  far  as  is  positively  known,  the  first  appearance  of  any 
work  of  his  elsewhere  than  in  periodicals.  "Banditti," 
now  known  as  "  The  Music-Grinders,"  had  appeared  in 
the  New  England  Galaxy,  "  Evening  "  in  the  Collegian, 
and  the  others  in  the  Amateur. 
Banditti. 

*  The  Two  Shadows. 

*  Infelix  Senectus. 
Evening:  by  a  Tailor. 
The  Treadmill  Song. 

^  Printed  in  Poems,  1836,  and  subsequent  collections,  under  the  title 
"The  Star  and  the  Water-Lily." 

^  Printed  in  Poems,  1836,  and  subsequent  collections,  under  the  title 
"Lines  by  a  Clerk." 


[  206  ]  ., 

The  I  Laurel:  |  A  Gift  for  all  Seasons.  |  Being 
a  I  Collection  of  Poems  |  [Ornament]  \  by  Amer- 
ican Authors.  I  Boston :  |  Edward  R,  Broader s.  \ 
1836.  [c.  1835.] 

Contains  the  following  poems  by  Dr.  Holmes,  all  of 
which  had  been  pubHshed  elsewhere.  As,  however,  those 
preceded  by  an  asterisk  had  previously  appeared  only  in 
periodicals,  they  were  first  "collected"  in  this  volume. 
The  others  had  been  printed  in  the  Harbinger. 

*  To  a  Blank  Sheet  of  Paper,  pp.  23-25. 

*  Old  Ironsides,  pp.  41^2. 

*  The  Last  Prophecy  of  Cassandra,  pp.  53-55. 
From  a  Bachelor's  Private  Journal,  pp.  65-66. 

*  To  my  Companions,  pp.  95-97. 
Stanzas,  p.  99. 

The  Dilemma,^  pp.  102-104. 
*The  Star  and  the  Lily,  pp.  139-141. 
The  Dying  Seneca,  pp.  184-185. 
The  Last  Leaf,  pp.  202-203. 

Poets  and  Poetry  of  America.      By  Rufus 
Wilmot  Griswold.    1850. 
Selections  from  Hohnes's  poems  on  pp.  360-368. 

Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union.   Boston:  Pub- 
lished by  Benjamin  B.  Russell,  1861. 
Contains  the  following  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes:  — 
Under  the  Washington  Elm,  p.  5. 
Army  Hymn,  pp.  14-15. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline,  pp.  27-28. 
A  Voice  of  the  Loyal  North,  p.  44. 
This  was  the  first  publication  elsewhere  than  in  periodicals  of 
all  except  the  "Army  Hymn." 

Lyrics  of  Loyalty.  Arranged  and  edited  by 
Frank  Moore.  New  York,  George  P.  Putnam, 
1864.  [c.  1863.] 

*  Spelled  "  Dillema  "  in  contents. 


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Contains  the  following  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes:  — 

The  Flower  of  Liberty,  pp.  116-117. 

Trumpet  Song,  pp.  150-152. 

Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union,  pp.  184-188. 

An  Appeal  ["Never  or  Now"],  pp.  241-242. 
The  first  and  only  appearance  of  the  "Trumpet  Song,"  and 
the  first  known  appearance  of  "Never  or  Now." 

Soundings  from  the  Atlantic.  |  By  |  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.  |  [Device]  \  Boston:  |  Ticknor 
and  Fields,  \  1864.    [c.  1863.] 

8vo,  pp.  viii,  468,  and  22  of  advertisements. 
Dedicated  to  Dr.  Jacob  Bigelow. 

Contents: — 

Bread  and  the  Newspaper,  pp.  1-23. 

My  Hunt  after  "The  Captain,"  pp.  24-123. 

The  Stereoscope  and  the  Stereograph,  pp.  124-165. 

Sun-Painting  and  Sun-Sculpture,  pp.  166-227. 

Doings  of  the  Sunbeam,  pp.  228-281. 

The  Human  Wheel,  its  Spokes  and  Felloes,  pp.  282-327. 

A  Visit  to  the  Autocrat's  Landlady,  pp.  328-347. 

A  Visit  to  the  Asylum  for  Aged  and  Decayed  Punsters, 
pp.  34&-361. 

The  Great  Instrument,  pp.  362-400. 

The  Inevitable  Trial,^  pp.  401-468. 

For  the  original  appearance  of  each  of  these  articles  in  the 
Atlantic,  see  their  respective  titles  in  the  alphabetical  list  (prose). 

Verses  from  the  Island  Book.  Cambridge: 
Printed  at  the  Riverside  Press,  1865. 

Contains  the  following  poems  by  Dr.  Holmes: — 

Prelude,  p.  iii. 

Song  ["Island  Hunting-Song"]. 

Answer  to  an  Invitation  ["To  Governor  Swain"]. 

The  Last  Look. 
The  "Song"  had  previously  been  printed,  under  its  longer 
title,  in  Poems,  1849,  2d  issue,  and  "  To  Groveraor  Swain  " 

*  Oration  delivered  before  the  City  Authorities  of  Boston,  July  4, 
1863. 


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and  "The  Last  Look,"  in  Songs  in  IMany  Keys,  1862.  The 
"Prelude "  was  written  for  this  very  rare  volume,  which  contains 
many  other  poems  written  on  or  concerning  Naushon  Island; 
it  has  never  been  reprinted  and  is  given  in  full  herewith. 

For  Dr.  Holmes's  sentiments  touching  Naushon  and  its 
owners,  see  the  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  Riverside 
Edition,  pp.  39-41. 

O  Thou  who  lo vest  best  the  song 

Of  bird  that  never  sang  in  cage, 
Such  are  the  wood-notes  that  belong 

To  this,  our  Island  song-book's  page! 

O'er  its  fair  field  the  fancy  flits 

That  never  bounden  book  confined. 

And  on  its  perch  the  warbler  sits 

Whom  leaden  chains  could  never  bind. 

As  when  the  birds  in  copse  and  glen. 

From  oaken  bough  and  birchen  spray,  — 

Thrush,  robin,  sparrow,  boboUnk,  wren. 
Blackbird  and  bluebird,  finch  and  jay,  — 

With  joyous  clamor  wake  the  mom 

And  startle  all  the  leafy  woods, 
To  thrill  these  poet-voices,  bom 

In  Nature's  seagirt  solitudes! 

Ah,  happy  seasons,  lapsing  sweet 

Amid  those  bowers  of  peace  and  rest. 

When  all  the  songsters  loved  to  meet 
And  carol  roimd  the  King-bird's  nest. 

Your  flowers  are  dust,  your  suns  have  set. 
Yet  here  they  still  shall  bloom  and  shine. 

Till  Love  and  Friendship  both  forget 
They  knelt  before  the  Island  shrine! 
November,  1864. 

Humorous  Poems.    By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
With  Illustrations  by  Sol  Ey tinge,  Jr.  [Device] 
Boston:    Ticknor  and  Fields.    1865. 
24mo,  paper,  pp.  100  (i-iv,  5-100). 


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Contents:  — 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

To  an  Insect. 

The  Dilemma. 

Daily  Trials. 

To  the  Portrait  of  "A  Lady." 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian. 

The  Dorchester  Giant. 

The  Music-Grinders. 

The  September  Gale. 

The  Toadstool. 

The  Spectre  Pig. 

The  Treadmill  Song. 

My  Aunt. 

Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival. 

Verses  for  After-Dinner. 

Poem  for  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Harvard  College. 

Evening:  by  a  Tailor. 

Nux  Postcoenatica. 

The  Stethoscope  Song. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 

Latter-Day  Warnings. 

Prologue  [from  the  "Autocrat"]. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 

The  Old  Man  of  the  Sea. 

Ode  for  a  Social  Gathering. 

Parson  TurelFs  Legacy. 

Contentment. 

De  Sauty. 

^Estivation. 

The  Old  Man  Dreams. 

What  we  all  Think. 

The  Comet. 

The  Last  Blossom. 

"The  B6ys." 

A  Sea  Dialogue. 

The  Jubilee. 

The  Sweet  Little  Man. 

Our  Oldest  Friend. 

Farewell  to  Agassiz. 


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"The  Jubilee,"  "A  Sea  Dialogue,"  and  "A  Farewell  to 
Agassiz  "  had  not  previously  appeared  in  any  collection  of 
Dr.  Holmes's  poems,  and  while  the  last  two  have  never  since 
been  omitted,  "The  Jubilee,"  which,  like  "A  Sea  Dialogue," 
was  originally  written  for  The  Boatswain's  Whistle,  published 
by  the  National  Sailors'  Fair  during  the  war,  has  never  ap- 
peared again. 

Wit  AND  Humour.     Poems  by  the  Autocrat  of 
the  Breakfast-Table.     London,  John  Camden 
Hotten,  Piccadilly,  W.,  1867. 
8vo,  pp.  192. 

Contains  an  introduction  by  Mr.  Hotten  and  the  fol- 
lowing poems :  — 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

To  an  Insect. 

The  Dilemma. 

Daily  Trials. 

To  the  Portrait  of  "A  Lady." 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian. 

The  Dorchester  Giant. 

The  Music-Grinders. 

The  September  Gale. 

The  Toadstool. 

The  Spectre  Pig. 

The  Treadmill  Song. 

My  Aunt. 

Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival. 

Verses  for  After  Dinner. 

A  Song  for  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Harvard  College. 

Evening. 

Nux  Postcoenatica. 

The  Stethoscope  Song. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 

Latter-Day  Warnings. 

Prologue. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece 

The  Old  Map  of  the  Sea. 

Ode  for  a  Social  Meeting. 


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Parson  Tiirell's  Legacy. 

Contentment. 

De  Sauty. 

^Estivation. 

The  Old  Man  Dreams. 

What  we  all  Think. 

The  Comet. 

The  Last  Blossom. 

"The  Boys." 

A  Sea  Dialogue. 

The  JubUee. 

The  Sweet  Little  Man. 

Our  Oldest  Friend. 

A  Farewell  to  Agassiz. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

The  Mysterious  Visitor. 

Lines  by  a  Clerk. 

To  the  Portrait  of  "A  Gentleman." 

The  Hot  Season. 

A  Modest  Request. 

Parnassus,  edited  by  Ralph  Waldo  Emerson, 
1874. 

Contains  the  following  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes,  under  the 
categories  indicated:  — 
Heroic. 

Old  tonsides. 

Never  or  Now. 
Personal. 

To  George  Peabody. 
Humorous. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 

Dorothy  Q. 

Contentment. 

Rudolph  the  Headsman. 

Favorite  Poems.  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Illustrated.  [Ornament]  Boston:  James  R. 
Osgood  and  Company,  late  Ticknor  &  Fields, 
and  Fields,  Osgood  &  Co.,  1877. 


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32mo,  pp.  105;  plates;  advertisements  on 
inside  of  both  covers,  and  on  pages  facing 
them. 

Contents  : — 
Old  Ironsides. 
Our  Yankee  Girls. 
The  Last  Leaf. 
My  Aunt. 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian. 
The  Dorchester  Giant. 
The  Comet. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 
The  Music-Grinders. 
The  September  Gale. 
The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 
The  Hot  Season. 
The  Steamboat. 

Lines  recited  at  the  Berkshire  Festival. 
On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 
The  Stethoscope  Song. 
The  Wonderful  One-Hoss  Shay. 
Contentment. 
The  Old  Man  Dreams. 
The  Chambered  Nautilus. 
The  Two  Armies. 
Musa. 

The  Two  Streams. 
Avis. 

Dorothy  Q. 
Army  Hymn. 
International  Ode. 
Parting  Hynm. 

Holmes  Leaflets.  Poems  and  Prose  Passages 
from  the  works  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
For  Reading  and  Recitations.  Compiled  by 
Josephine  E.  Hodgdon.  Illustrated.  Boston, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co,    [1881.] 

8vo,  pp.  107;  with  portrait  and  many  other 
cuts. 


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This  volume  is  made  up  of  poemus  and  prose  selections, 
each  beginning  on  a  right-hand  page.  On  p.  11  "The 
Poet  to  the  Children,"  Dr.  Holmes's  letter  to  the  School 
Children  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  their  celebration  of  his 
seventy-first  year.  The  prose  selections  are  all  taken  from 
the  Breakfast-Table  Series. 

Reissued  in  1891  as  extra  number  H  of  the  Riverside 
Literature  Series.  The  recent  impressions,  since  Dr. 
Holmes's  death,  have  contained  a  Biographical  Sketch. 

Grandmother's  Story,  and  Other  Poems,  with 
Notes  and  a  Biographical  Sketch.  Boston, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1883. 

l£mo,  pp.  96 ;   portrait,  and  cut  of  Holmes's 
Birthplace. 

Riverside  Literature  Series,  no.  6. 
Contents  :  — 

Biographical  Sketch  [as  in  Poems,  Household  Edition]. 

Grandmother's  Story. 

How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet. 

An  Appeal  for  "The  Old  South." 

A  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

Reflections  of  a  Proud  Pedestrian. 

Evening:  By  a  Tailor. 

The  Ploughman. 

The  Old  Man  of  the  Sea. 

Dorothy  Q:  a  Family  Portrait. 

Bill  and  Joe. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline. 

For  the  Services  in  Memory  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Ode  for  Washington's  Birthday. 

Lexington. 

Old  Ironsides. 

Robinson  of  Leyden. 

The  Pilgrim's  Vision. 

The  Living  Temple. 


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I        The  Chambered  Nautilus. 
Contentment. 
The  Two  Armies. 
Spring. 

Centennial  Celebration  of  Harvard  College,  1836. 
The  Steamboat. 
The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 
The  Broomstick  Train. 
Under  the  Washington  Elm,  Cambridge. 
Freedom,  Our  Queen. 
The  Flower  of  Liberty. 
Union  and  Liberty. 
God  Save  the  Flag! 
A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 

Favorite  Poems,  and  My  Hunt  after  "  the 
Captain."  By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Boston, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company,  New  York : 
11  East  Seventeenth  Street.  The  Riverside 
Press,  Cambridge,  1884. 

32mo,  pp.  307;  with  illustrations;  adver- 
tisements of  Modern  Classics  on  inside  covers 
and  pages  facing  them. 

Modem  Classics,  no.  30.  The  volume  contains  the  fol- 
lowing poems  in  addition  to  those  printed  in  the  Favorite 
Poems  of  1877. 

Lexington. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Moore. 

The  Hudson. 

Semi-centennial  Celebration  of  the  New  England  Society. 

For  the  Meeting  of  the  Burns  Club. 

Birthday  of  Daniel  Webster. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline. 

Union  and  Liberty. 

Robinson  of  Ley  den. 

AuntTabitha.  * 

Bill  and  Joe. 

The  Boys. 


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The  Last  Charge. 
A  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party. 
Never  or  Now. 
Bryant's  Seventieth  Birthday. 
At  a  Dinner  to  General  Grant. 
At  a  Dinner  to  Admiral  Farragut. 
To  H.  W.  Longfellow. 
For  the  Commemoration  Services  [Lincoln]. 
Edward  Everett. 
At  the  Atlantic  Dinner. 
Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker-Hill  Battle. 
How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet. 

The  poems  fill  205  pages;    "My  Hunt  after  *the  Captain'" 
begins  on  p.  207,  with  a  separate  half-title. 

Selections  from  the  Breakfast-Table  Series 

AND  Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life. 

By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.     Boston  and  New 

York,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.     [1884.] 

32mo,  pp.    332;    advertisements  of  Modern 

Classics    on  inside   covers   and   pages   facing 

them;  index,  pp.  331-332. 

Modem  Classics,  no.  33. 

Contents  :  — 

Selections  from  the  Autocrat. 
Selections  from  the  Professor. 
Selections  from  the  Poet. 
The  Physiology  of  Walking. 
Cinders  from  the  Ashes. 

Illustrated  Poems  of  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  with  Illustrations  by  George  Ran- 
dolph Barse  [and  19  others]  [Device].  Boston, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company.  New  York: 
11  East  Seventeenth  Street;  The  Riverside 
Press,  Cambridge,  1885. 

4to,  pp.  X,  89;  portrait  and  numerous  cuts. 


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Collation:  i,  title;  li,  copyright  and  imprint;  iii, 
contents;  iv,  blank;  v-viii,  list  of  illustrations; 
ix-x,  "Ave"  [verse],  dated  Beverly  Farms, 
July  24,  1884;    1-89,  poems. 

Contains  28  poems,  all  of  which  had  appeared  in  some 
previous  collection. 

Issued  in  England  with  imprint  of  Macmillan  &  Co. 

Selections   from   the   Poetical   Works   of 
Dr.    Oliver   Wendell   Holmes.      With   a 
"Dedication,"  written  by  the  Author  expressly 
for  this  edition.     Electrotyped.      The  Howe 
Memorial  Press.    Perkins  Institution  and  Mas- 
sachusetts School  for  the  Blind.   Boston.    1885. 
4to,  pp.  V,  168.    Printed  in  raised  letters  for 
the  use  of  the  blind. 
On  page  v  is  the  "Dedication"  in  verse,  beginning; — 
*'  Dear  friends,  left  darkling  in  the  long  eclipse," 
to  which  no  other  title  has  ever  been  given  than  "  Prelude 
to  a  Volume  printed  in  Raised  Letters  for  the  Blind."  The 
poems  number  91. 

The  Same.    The  Howe  Memorial  Press.    1885. 
4to.    The  same  selections  printed  in  raised 
symbols y  not  letters. 

Poems.     By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.     London, 
George  Routledge  &  Sons,  Broadway,  Ludgate 
Hill;  New  York,  9  Lafayette  Place,  1886. 
12mo,  pp.  384. 
Selected  poems. 

Selections  from  the  Writings  of  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  arranged  under  the  Days 
of  the  Year,  and  accompanied  by  Memoranda 
of  Anniversaries  of  Noted  Events,  and  of  the 


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Birth  or  Death  of  Famous  Men  and  Women. 
Boston  and  New  York:    Houghton^   Mifflin 
&  Co,    The  Riverside  Press,  Cambridge,  1887. 
24mo,  pages  unnumbered. 

"The  Chambered  Nautilus"  on  leaf  next  title;  selec- 
tions begin  on  following  leaf. 

Half-Hours  with  the  Best  American  Au- 
thors. Selected  and  Arranged  by  Charles 
Morris.  Philadelphia,  J.  B,  Lippincott  &  Co,, 
1887. 

4  vols.,  8vo. 

Vol.  i,  pp.  487-493,  Excerpts  from  the  "Autocrat." 

Vol.  ii,  pp.  434-435,  "The  Voiceless." 

Vol.  iii,  pp.  130-132,  "The  Chambered  Nautilus." 

My  Hunt  after  the  Captain  and  Other 
Papers.  With  Notes  and  an  Introductory 
Essay.  Boston,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co., 
1887. 

12mo,  pp.  93. 
Riverside  Literature  Series,  no.  31. 

Contents;  — 

Dr.  Holmes's  Prose  Writings. 
My  Hunt  after  the  Captain. 
The  Physiology  of  Walking. 
Great  Trees  (from  the  "Autocrat  ")• 

The  Holmes  Birthday  Book  {Ornament]  [Quo- 
tation^] {Device],  Boston  and  New  York, 
Houghton,  Mifflin  and  Company,  The  River- 
side Press,  Cambridge,    [c.  1889.] 

32mo,  pp.  [iv],  407;  portrait  and  plates. 
On  p.  [iii]  is  a  passage  from  the  "  Poet,"  and  the  famil- 
iar portrait  of  Dorothy  Q  is  reproduced  opposite  p.  1  of 
*  Four  lines  from  "  The  Iron  Gate." 


[218] 

-  < 

text.  The  selections  for  each  month  are  preceded  and 
followed  by  a  poetical  quotation.  On  the  left-hand  pages 
selections  from  Dr.  Holmes's  works  are  assigned  to  the 
days  of  the  month,  two  to  each  page,  and  on  the  right- 
hand  pages  the  corresponding  dates  are  repeated,  with 
the  names  of  famous  persons  who  were  bom  on  those  days, 
with  the  year  of  birth.  Index  of  persons  whose  births 
are  so  recorded,  on  pp.  399-407. 

Holmes  Gems.  Illustrated  by  Louis  K.  Harlow. 
Boston,  Samuel  E.  Cassino,  196  Summer  Street, 
1891. 

8vo.    Rubricated  title. 

Warner's  Library  of  the  World's  Best 
Literature.    Vol.  xiii,  pp.  7457-7495. 

Old  Ironsides. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 

The  Chambered  Nautilus. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 

A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 

The  Voiceless. 

Bill  and  Joe. 

Dorothy  Q. 

The  Three  Professions  (from  the  "Poet"). 

Elsie  at  the  Sprowle  Party  (from  Elsie  Venner). 

On  Rattlesnake  Ledge  (from  Elsie  Venner). 

My  Last  Walk  with  the  School  JVIistress  (from  the  "  Auto- 
crat "). 

The  Lark  on  Salisbury  Plain  (from  Our  Hundred  Days  in 
Europe). 

Holmes  Year  Book.  London,  Gay  &Bird,  1895. 

The    "Autocrat"    Birthday   Book.       Being 
Selections  from  the  Works   of   Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  arranged  by  A.  L.  McDonald.    Lon- 
don, Sunday  School  Union.  [1895.] 
16mo,  pp.  268. 


[219] 

Selections  from  the  Writings  of  Eleven 
American  Authors,  with  Portraits  and  Bio- 
graphical Sketches.  Boston,  Houghton^  Mifflin 
and  Co.,  1896. 

Riverside  Literature  Series,  N.    Holmes,  pp.  30-36. 
Contents: — 

Biographical  Sketch. 

The  Chambered  Nautilus. 

Robinson  of  Leyden. 

Departed  Days. 

Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker  Hill  Battle 
and  other  Verse  and  Prose.  Boston,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1896. 

12mo,  pp.  1-96,  and  1-93,  with  panel  adver- 
tisement preceding  frontispiece  and  32  pp. 
of  advertisements  at  end;   portrait  and  cut. 

Published  in  Riverside  School  Library,  and  consists 
of  Riverside  Literature  Series,  nos.  6  and  31  (see  pages 
213  and  217),  bound  together;  each  part  has  a  half-title, 
the  second  bearing  these  words :  "  My  Hunt  after  the 
Captain  and  Other  Papers,  with  an  Introductory  Essay 
on  Dr.  Holmes's  Prose  Writings." 

The  Wonderful  "  One-Hoss-Shay  "  (Re- 
printed from  the  Atlantic  Monthly  of  Septem- 
ber, 1858)  and  Other  Poems.  With  numerous 
original  illustrations  by  C.  Moore  Smith.  New 
York,  Frederick  A.  Stokes  Company,  1897. 
24mo,  pp.  126. 

Selected  Poems  by  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
With  Introduction  and  Notes  by  E.  H.  Turpin. 
New  York,  Maynard,  Merrill  &  Co.,  1898. 
16mo. 
Maynard's  English  Classic,  Series,  no.  205.    Contains 


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a  biographical  sketch  of  six  pages,  a  "Chronology  of 
Holmes's  Chief  Works,"  and  "Critical  Opinions," 
together  with  the  following  poems: — 

Cambridge  Churchyard. 

Old  Ironsides. 

Our  Yankee  Girls. 

Illustration  of  a  Picture. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

To  an  Insert. 

The  Meeting  of  the  Dryads. 

The  Comet. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

Lexington. 

The  Music-Grinders. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 

The  Hot  Season. 

The  Wasp  and  the  Hornet. 

"Qui  Vive!" 

Selections  from  Urania. 

The  Stereoscope  and  Stereoscopic  Photo- 
graphs. Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Underwood 
and  Underwood,  New  York,  London,  Ottawa 
(Kansas),  and  Toronto,  1898. 

12mo,  pp.  80. 
Contents: — 
Introduction. 
The  Stereoscope  and  the  Stereograph;    first   appeared  in 

Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1859,  vol.  3,  pp.  738-748. 
Sun-Painting  and  Sun-Sculpture;   first  appeared  in  Atlantic 

Monthly,  July,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  13-19. 
Article  on  Stereoscopic  Photographs,  signed  Underwood  and 
Underwood. 

The  One-Hoss  Shay,  The  Chambered  Nau- 
tilus, AND  Other  Poems,  Gay  and  Grave. 
By  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Boston  and  New 
York,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1899. 

12mo,  pp.  viii,  154,  and  1  of  advertisement 


[  m  ] 

of  the  series;  ''Editor's  Note,"  signed  H.  E. 

S[eudder]  on  pp.  v-vi. 

Riverside  Aldine  Classics. 

Contents  :  — 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece,  or  the  Wonderful  "One-Hoss 

Shay." 
Parson  Turell*s  Legacy. 
How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet. 
The  Broomstick  Train. 
My  Aunt. 

The  Dorchester  Giant. 
The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 
The  Spectre  Pig. 
The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 
The  Hot  Season. 
The  Stethoscope  Song. 
Bill  and  Joe. 
Latter-Day  Warnings. 
Contentment. 
De  Sauty. 

Ode  for  a  Social  Meeting. 
The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias. 
Old  Cambridge,  July  3,  1875. 
Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series. 
The  Chambered  Nautilus. 
Old  Ironsides. 
The  Last  Leaf. 
The  Cambridge  Churchyard. 
Dorothy  Q. 
The  Organ-Blower. 
Agnes. 
Avis. 

A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 

The  Crooked  Footpath.  • 

Robinson  of  Leyden. 
My  Aviary. 

A  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party. 
Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker-Hill  Battle. 
The  School-Boy. 
At  the  Saturday  Club. 
The  Iron  Gate. 


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The  Early  Poems  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
With    an    Introduction    by    Nathan    Haskell 
Dole.   New  York,  T.  F.  Crowell  &  Co.,  1899. 
16mo,  pp.  325. 

The  Early  Poems  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
With  a  Biographical  Sketch  by  Henry  Ketcham. 
New  York,  A.  L,  Burt,  1900. 
12mo,  pp.  250. 
Each  of  the  two  volumes  last  described  contains  all 
the  poems,  and  no  others,  that  were  included  in  the  Lon- 
don (Routledge)  edition  of  1852. 

An  American  Anthology,  E.  C.  Stedman,  1900. 
Contains  the  following  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes: — 
Old  Ironsides. 
The  Last  Leaf. 
The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 
La  Grisette. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 
After  a  Lecture  on  Keats. 
The  Voiceless. 
The  Living  Temple. 
The  Chambered  Nautilus. 
Bill  and  Joe. 
Under  the  Violets. 
Hymn  of  Trust. 

Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series. 
Dorothy  Q. 
Cacoethes  Scribendi. 
The  Strong  Heroic  Line.^ 
From  "The  Iron  Gate." 

Gems  from  Holmes.    Boston,  De  Woljcy  Fiske 
&  Co,,  1904. 

16mo.    Printed  in  pale  blue  and  gold,  with 
decorative  borders. 

*  Extract  from  the  "  Poem  read  at  the  Dioner  given  to  the  Author  by 
the  Medical  Profession  of  the  City  of  New  York,"  April  12,  1883. 


[^23] 

The  Chief  American  Poets,  by  Curtis  Hidden 
Page.       Boston   and   New   York,   Houghton, 
Mifflin  iSc  Co,,  1895. 
Contains  the  following  poems  of  Dr.  Holmes :  — 

Old  Ironsides. 

The  Ballad  of  the  Oysterman. 

The  Height  of  the  Ridiculous. 

To  an  Insect. 

L'Inconnue. 

My  Aunt. 

The  Last  Leaf. 

La  Grisette. 

Our  Yankee  Girls. 

On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl. 

The  Stethoscope  Song. 

The  Statesman's  Secret. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth. 

After  a  Lecture  on  Shelley. 

The  Hudson. 

To  an  English  Friend. 

The  Old  Man  Dreams. 

Birthday  of  Daniel  Webster. 

For  the  Meeting  of  the  Burns  Club. 

Latter-Day  Warnings. 

The  Chambered  Nautilus. 

The  Living  Temple. 

The  Deacon's  Masterpiece. 

Contentment. 

Parson  Turell's  Legacy. 

The  Voiceless. 

For  the  Burns  Centennial  Celebration. 

The  Boys. 

At  a  Meeting  of  Friends. 

The  Two  Streams. 

Under  the  Violets. 

Hymn  of  Trust. 

A  Sun-Day  Hymn. 

Prologue  to  Songs  in  Many  Keys. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline. 

Parting  Hymn. 


Union  and  Liberty. 

J.  D.  R. 

To  my  Readers. 

Voyage  of  the  Grood  Ship  Union. 

Bryant's  Seventieth  Birthday. 

My  Annual. 

M  Here. 

Bill  and  Joe. 

Nearing  the  Snow  Line. 

Dorothy  Q. 

Epilogue  to  the  Breakfast-Table  Series. 

Programme. 

Grandmother's  Story  of  Bunker-Hill  Battle. 

How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet. 

For  Whittier's  Seventieth  Birthday. 

Veritas. 

The  Silent  Melody. 

The  Iron  Gate. 

The  Shadows. 

At  the  Saturday  Club. 

The  Girdle  of  Friendship. 

To  James  Russell  Lowell. 

The  Lyre  of  Anacreon. 

After  the  Curfew. 

La  Maison  d*Or. 

Too  Young  for  Love. 

The  Broomstick  Train. 

Invita  Minerva. 

James  Russell  Lowell,  1819-1891. 

In  Memory  of  John  Greenleaf  Whittier. 


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Selections  from  Dr.  Holmes's  works  may  be  found  also 
in  the  following  collections: — 

Cyclopedia  of  American  Literature,  edited  by 
Evert  A.  and  George  L.  Duyckinck.  New  York, 
1856  ;  also  Supplement  to  same,  1866. 

Golden  Leaves  from  the  American  Poets,  col- 
lected by  John  W.  S.  Hows.   New  York,  1864. 

American  Poems,  1879. 

Biographical  Sketch  on  pp,  317-319. 

Modern  American  Lyrics,  edited  by  Karl  Kiiortz 
and  Otto  Dickmann.    Leipzig  and  Boston,  1880. 

Poems  of  American  Patriotism,  chosen  by  J.  Bran- 
der  Matthews.    New  York,  1882. 

Library    of    American    Literature,    from    the 
Earliest   Settlement   to  the  Present   Time, 
edited   by  Edmund  Clarence  Stedman  and  Ellen 
Mackay  Hutchinson.    New  York,  1888-1890. 
Selections  in  vol.  vii. 

Representative  Sonnets  by  American  Poets, 
edited  by  Charles  H.  Crandall.   Boston,  1890. 

Masterpieces  of  American  Literature,  edited  by 
Horace  E.  Scudder.    Boston,  1891. 

American  Song,  edited  by  Arthur  B.  Simonds,  A.  M. 
New  York,  1894. 

Poems  of  American  Patriotism,  1776-1898,  selected 
by  R.  L.  Paget.    Boston,  1898. 

American  Prose,  edited  by  George  Rice  Carpenter. 
London  and  New  York,  1898. 

The  Treasury  of  American  Sacred  Song.  London 
and  New  York,  1900. 


LETTERS 

Mr.  Morse's  biography  of  Dr.  Holmes  contains  a  large 
collection  of  his  letters,  including  many  to  Mr.  Motley, 
and  a  large  proportion  of  those  to  Mr.  Lowell,  the  orig- 
inals of  which  have  been  deposited  in  the  Harvard  Library 
by  Professor  Norton  as  a  part  of  his  valuable  collection 
of  LoweU  manuscripts.  Mr.  Morse  has  this  to  say  in 
his  preface  on  the  general  subject  of  Dr.  Holmes's  corre- 
spondence :  — 

"  The  fact  is  that  letter-writing  was  to  Dr.  Holmes  an 
irksome  task.  Except  to  Motley  and  to  Lowell,  during 
their  absences  in  Europe,  he  very  rarely  wrote  spontane- 
ously and  in  the  way  of  friendship.  His  letters,  it  mil 
be  observed,  were  almost  always  written  because  some 
correspondent  could  not  be  left  unanswered,  or  under 
the  more  or  less  mild  compulsion  of  some  special  occa- 
sion. Therefore  his  letters  are  few.  Every  effort  has  been 
made  to  collect  them,  and  the  result  is  spread  very  fully 
before  the  reader.  Nothing  has  been  omitted  which,  by 
any  liberaUty  of  judgment,  could  be  supposed  to  have 
any  interest;  on  the  contrary,  notes  and  letters  are 
printed,  which  would  hardly  have  been  selected  had 
there  been  an  embarras  de  richesses." 

In  chapter  xii  of  the  first  volume  of  the  Life  and 
Letters  ("The  Victim  of  Correspondents"),  IMr.  Morse 
deals  with  the  same  subject  at  considerable  length. 

In  connection  with  this  chapter  it  is  interesting  to  read 
what  Dr.  Holmes  has  to  say  in  his  own  behalf.  In  an 
article  in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  January,  1886,  called 
"A  Cry  from  the  Study,"  he  writes  somewhat  bitterly 
concerning  the  correspondents  who  "could  not  be  left 
unanswered." 

"I  am  overburdened  with  a  correspondence  which  I 


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find  almost  unmanageable.  It  has  reached  such  a  point 
that  I  feel  as  if  it  would  not  be  unreasonable  for  me  to 
put  out  a  sign  bearing  my  name  with  the  following  addi- 
tions:—  *  *  *  Professional  Correspondent,  attends  to 
letters  on  all  subjects,  from  all  persons  and  all  quarters. 
Autographs  in  quantity  at  short  notice.  The  Corre- 
spondent will  furnish  stationery  without  charge  to  all 
applicants,  in  the  form  of  envelopes  addressed  to  him- 
self, and  stamped,  containing  a  blank  sheet  of  paper  for 
the  letter  or  message  he  is  to  receive.  All  communications, 
long  or  short,  all  manuscripts,  legible  or  illegible,  all  books 
and  pamphlets,  readable  or  unreadable,  thankfully  re- 
ceived and  immediately  read  and  criticised.  The  Corre- 
spondent expects  no  pecuniary  return  for  the  few  daily 
hours  consumed  in  this  labor  of  love.  It  is  more  than 
enough  to  be  told  that  his  well-known  kindness  and  uni- 
versally recognized  genial  nature  have  emboldened  the 
writer  to  venture  on  what  he  (with  superfluous  modesty) 
calls  his  'unauthorized  inti-usion.'  The  Correspondent 
would  add  that,  if  any  sentence  or  any  fragment  of  a 
sentence  can  be  found  in  any  letter  of  his  which  can  be 
made  use  of  so  as  to  add  commercial  value  to  any  pub- 
Ucation,  it  cannot  be  expected  that  the  word  Private 
prefixed  to  that  letter  should  be  considered  as  prevent- 
ing the  recipient  from  giving  it  publicity  in  such  form 
as  may  best  promote  his  interests." 

The  details  that  he  proceeds  to  give  concerning  the 
different  varieties  of  letter  to  which  he  was  subjected, 
and  concerning  his  habit  of  replying  to  an  enormously 
large  proportion  of  them,  leave  little  room  for  doubt 
that  there  must  be  an  exceedingly  large  number  of  his 
letters  in  existence,  and,  at  the  same  time,  that,  in  many 
cases,  they  are  not  likely  to  be  published. 

On  November  1,  1887,  Dr.  Holmes  addressed  to  his 
correspondents  a  circular  letter  in  these  words :  — 

"Dr.  Holmes  regrets  that  impaired  eyesight  and  the 
large  demands  made  upon  his  time  by  distant  and  un- 


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known  friends  oblige  him  to  contract  his  hitherto  ex- 
tended correspondence,  and  to  avail  himself  of  the  ser- 
vices of  an  assistant  ir  writing." 

Copies  of  this  document,  printed  on  a  sheet  of  note 
paper,  are  rare  and  much  sought  after  by  collectors, 
especially  when  one  of  the  blank  pages  bears,  as  is  some- 
times the  case,  an  autograph  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes. 

Letters  on  matters  of  public  or  quasi-public  interest 
may  be  found  in  the  following  works.  The  list  is  of  course 
very,  very  far  from  complete,  and  is  offered  simply  for 
what  it  is  worth.  On  a  later  page  will  be  found  some 
information  concerning  manuscript  copies  of  certain 
letters  which  have  found  their  way  to  the  auction  room. 

Some  Account  of  the  Letheon,  or  Who  is  the  Dis- 
coverer, 1847,  pp.  84-85. 

A  letter  to  Dr.  W.  T.  G.  Morton,  suggesting  "Anaesthesia** 
as  a  name  to  be  applied  to  the  state  produced  by  his  new  dis- 
covery, and  to  the  agent  thereof.  In  a  second  edition  of  the  same 
year  Dr.  Holmes's  letter  is  on  p.  79.  In  this  edition  the  sub- 
title is  changed  to  "Who  was  the  Discoverer." 

Report  of  Select  Committee  of  House  of  Represent- 
atives, U.  S.,  on  the  Memorial  of  W.  T.  G.  Morton; 
Thirty-Second  Congress,  1st  Session,  1852,  p.  117. 

An  Account  of  the  Pilgrim  Celebration  at  Plymouth, 
Aug.  1,  1853,  p.  136. 

Dr.  Holmes's  letter,  dated  Pittsfield,  July  5,  1853,  concludes 
thus :  — 

*'The  good  people  of  Delft,  — They  were  known  to  all  the  rest 
of  the  worid  by  their  ugly  mugs:  but  we  shall  always  remember 
them  for  sending  us  a  cargo  of  Chosen  Vessels." 

Celebration  of  the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the 
Introduction  of  the  Art  of  Printing  into  New 
Hampshire,  in  the  City  of  Portsmouth,  Oct.  6,  1856 
(1857),  pp.  54-55. 

Trials  of  a  Public  Benefactor  [Dr.  W.  T.  G.  Morton], 
by  Nathan  P.  Rice,  1859,  pp.  137,  286,  312,  429. 


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Contains  the  letter  to  Dr.  Morton,  suggesting  the  name, 
"  Anaesthesia,"  and  three  others  relating  to  the  Ether  Contro- 
versy. 

A  History  of  the  Boston  Dispensary,  1859,  pp.  138- 

141. 
Proceedings  on  Behalf  of  the  Morton  Testimonial, 

1861. 

Fifty-Eighth  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  New 
England  Society  in  the  City  of  New  York,  Dec. 
22,  1863,  pp.  45-47. 

Our  Daily  Fare  [see  p.  36],  June  17,  1864,  no.  9,  p.  65. 
Letter  written  by  Dr.  Holmes  in  reply  to  a  request  of  the 
Autograph  Committee  of  the  Great  Western  Fair  at  Cincinnati, 
in  Dec.,  1863,  that  he  should  be  "funny  over  his  own  signature." 

Boston,  Dec.  14,  1863. 
Dear  Sir:  —  You  ask  me  for  a  list  of  questions  in  Natural 
History,  with  answers  subjoined,  for  the  use  of  the  instructor.  I 
submit  a  few  which,  I  think,  will  serve  your  piu-pose  for  the 
proposed  examination  of  the  Scientific  Class : 

1.  What  animal  produces  one  of  its  own  parents.? 
Answer.    The  beaver,  which  is  well  known  to  construct  its 

own  dam. 

2.  Is  the  Dodo  extinct  ? 

Ans.  It  is  not,  as  shown  by  the  following  bill  in  my  possession. 

Mr.  — toX— ,  Dr. 

One  mongrel  goose  $3.00 

One      do  do  3.00 

$6.00 

3.  What  is  the  largest  quadruped  ? 
Ans.  The  mole  of  Adrian. 

4.  What  is  the  Hghtest  quadruped  ? 

Ans.  The  lynx.    The  lynx  weighs  less  than  an  ounce. 

5.  When  does  a  horse  stand  on  six  legs  ? 

Ans.  When  he  stands  on  his  fore  legs  and  his  two  hind  legs 
also. 

6.  What  other  insect  is  the  bee  afraid  of  ? 
Ans.  The  beetle  —  (scare-a-bee-us). 

7.  Is  the  otter  of  roses  obtained  from  that  animal  when  fed 
on  other  vegetables  —  cabbages  for  instance  ? 


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Ans.  Probably.  The  musk  deer  furnishes  his  perfume  when 
fed  on  water  melons. 

8.  What  instance  can  you  give  of  the  cunning  of  serpents  ? 
Ans.  The  simple  fact  that  they  secrete  their  venom  where 

they  can  find  it  when  wanted. 

9.  Why  do  the  above  questions  amuse  you  more  than  the 
answers  ? 

Ans.  Because  the  person  who  asks  the  questions  is  the  querist. 

As  to  the  other  questions  about  which  you  ask  my  opinion, 
my  answer  must  be  brief. 

Eighteen  hours'  study  out  of  twenty-four  is  too  much,  I  think, 
for  delicate  young  persons.  It  does  not  allow  sufficient  time 
for  sleep,  recreation  and  meals. 

I  doubt  about  the  introduction  of  capital  punishment  as  a 
part  of  the  ordinary  college  discipline.  It  will  have  a  good  effect 
on  the  survivors,  no  doubt. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Fifty-Ninth  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  New 
England  Society  in  the  City  of  New  York,  Dec. 
15,  1864,  p.  20. 

Boston,  Dec.  15,  1864. 
Dear  Sir:  —  I  regret  very  much  that  my  engagements  render 
it  impossible  for  me  to  accept  the  very  kind  invitation  of  the 
New  England  Society  to  be  present  at  their  annual  festival. 
May  I  take  advantage  of  your  kindness  by  requesting  you  to 
read  the  following  advertisement,  which  I  hope  will  not  fail  to 
interest  the  children  of  the  Pilgrims :  — 

GREAT   MORAL   EXHIBITION 

OF 

Architectural  Models 
two  shows  under  one  canvas 

No.  1.  Temple  of  Slavery  —  Foundation,  trap  rock;  base- 
ment, serpentine,  with  comer  stone  of  black  lava;  walls,  loose 
conglomerate. 

In  the  background  —  Vesuvius  smoking. 

No.  2.  Temple  of  Liberty  —  Foundation,  Plymouth  granite; 
basement.  Northern  freestone;  walls,  Jasper,  from  the  cele- 
brated quarry  of  the  New  Jerusalem. 


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Background  —  Mountains  of  New  England. 
Monadnock,  Kearsarge,  Wachusett. 

Tickets  free  to  all  Mankind. 

School  children  from  the  Old  World  monarchies  and  their 
masters  are  cordially  invited. 

A.  Lincoln,  Manager. 
Ushers  —  Messrs.  Grant,  Sherman,  Sheridan,  Butler,  Far- 
ragut,  Winslow  and  others. 

N.  B.  —  This  is  the  last  opportunity  to  see  the  complete 
double  show,  as  model  No.  1  is  shortly  to  be  taken  to  pieces 
and  removed  to  make  room  for  an  extension  of  the  Temple 
of  Freedom. 

Yours,  very  truly  and  respectfully, 

O.  W.  Holmes. 

Sixty-Second  Anniversary  Celebration  of  the  New 

England  Society,  Dec.  23,  1867,  p.  63. 
The  New  Ledger  Building  (Philadelphia),  1867,  pp. 

41-42. 

Celebration  of  the   One  Hundred  ant)   Eleventh 
Anniversary    of    Robert    Burns'    Natal    Day,    at 
Delmonico's  Hotel,  New  York,  Jan.  25,  1870,  pp.  10-11. 
Extracts  from  the  same  letter  are  printed  in 

Burnsiana:  a  Collection  of  Literary  Odds  and  Ends  relat- 
ing to  Robert  Burns,  compiled  by  John  D.  Ross  (Paisley 
and  London),  1892,  vol.  i,  p.  72. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Soci- 
ety, Sept.  8,  1870,  vol.  11,  p.  369. 
Letter  on  the  death  of  John  P.  Kennedy. 

The  Unity  of  Italy.  The  American  Celebration,  etc., 
Jan.  12,  1871,  p.  71. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  So- 
ciety, Aug.  10,  1871,  vol.  12,  pp.  154-155. 

Letter  concerning  Sir  Walter  Scott.    Also  printed  in 

Tributes  to  Walter  Scott  on  the  100th  anniversary  of  his 
bu-thday,  by  the  Mass.  Hist.  Soc,  1871,  pp.  15-16;  and  in 
Quarterly  Review,  London,  April,  1872. 


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Proceedings  at  the  Farewell.  Banquet  to  Prof. 
Tyndall,  Feb.  4,  1873,  pp.  25-27. 

History  of  the  Black  Bear,  "Billy  Bruin,"  who 
ESCAPED  FROM  RiDGE  HiLL  Farms,  Wcllcsley,  Moss., 
1874,  p.  15. 

The  Ark,  Feb.  26,  1875,  vol,  1,  no.  5. 

This  periodical  was  conducted  in  the  interest  of  a  fair  for  the 
benefit  of  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Animals. 
Dr.  Holmes's  letter  is  headed :  "  Suggestive  Hints  from  Ohver 
Wendell  Holmes."  The  concluding  paragraph  is  as  follows:  — 
"The  Society  must  remember  that  even  speaking  animals 
have  a  right  sometimes  to  plead  for  protection.  Especially 
should  the  poets,  or  those  who  are  commonly  spoken  of  as  such, 
be  spared.  The  ascent  of  Parnassus  is  notoriously  very  diffi- 
cult, and  I  venture  to  recommend  to  the  Society  that  it  cause 
to  be  placed  at  the  door  of  every  building  occupied  by  any 
association  whatsoever,  but  more  especially  of  every  benevolent 
association,  —  inasmuch  as  all  such  feel  that  they  have  a  right 
to  call  on  everybody  for  everything,  —  a  board  with  the  follow- 
ing inscription : 

*'  Please  Spare  your  Poets  when  going  up  Hill." 

Semi-Centennial  OF  THE  Philomathean  Society, 
Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  May  26,  1875,  pp. 
73-75. 

Laurel  Leaves.  Original  Poems,  Stories  and  Essays, 
1876,  p.  vii. 

The  book  is  dedicated  to  Dr.  Holmes,  and  the  letter  is  his 
acceptance  of  the  compUment. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Sept.  28,  1876, 
vol.  95,  pp.  393-395. 
Letter  concerning  Dr.  John  B.  S.  Jackson. 

Edgar  Allan  Poe.  A  Memorial  Volume.  By  Sara  S. 
Rice  (Baltimore),  1877,  pp.  79-80. 

Guide  to  the  Ridge  Hill  Farms,  Wellesley,  Mass.,  and 
Social  Science  Reform,  1877,  pp.  55-56. 


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Proceedings  at  a  Reception  in  Honor  of  the  Rev. 
O.  B.  Frothingham,  by  the  Independent  Liberal  Club, 
April  22,  1879,  p.  54. 

City  of  Boston.  Report  of  the  Joint  Special  Com- 
mittee ON  Intramural  Interments,  1879. 

Letter  to  the  Committee,  Sept.  1,  1879,  in  reference  to  inter- 
ments in  King's  Chapel  Burial-Ground. 

Proceedings  of  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anni- 
versary OF  THE  First  Church  and  Parish  of  Dor- 
chester, 1880,  p.  170. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  23,  1881, 
vol.  104,  p.  593. 

Letter  to  Dr.  George  E.  Elhs  (Read  at  the  Centennial  Dinner 
of  the  Mass.  Medical  Society). 

The  Sword  and  the  Pen,  Dec.  10,  1881,  no.  4,  p.  1. 

"A  Note  of  Regret,"  dated  Nov.  23,  1881.    The  paper  was 
published  in  the  interest  of  the  Soldiers'  Home  Bazaar. 

Proceedings  at  a  Banquet  given  by  his  Friends  to 
THE  Hon.  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  Ph.  D.,  on  his  Birth- 
day, Sept.  22,  1883,  p.  101. 

Herbert  Spencer  on  the  Americans  and  the  Ameri- 
cans ON  Herbert  Spencer,  1883,  pp.  84-85. 

Critic,  Sept.  6, 1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  109. 

"Dr.  Holmes's  Reply"  to  the  "Surprise  Party"  number.  See 
infra,  pp.  268-269. 

American  Anti-Slavery  Society  Commemoration,  1884, 
p.  61. 

Proceedings  at  the  Presentation  of  a  Portrait  of 
J.  G.  Whittier  to  the  Friends'  School,  Providence, 
R.  L,  10th  Mo.,  24,  1884  (1885). 
Letter  dated  July  16,  1884. 

History  of  the  Ordination  of  Caleb  D.  Bradlee. 
Also   History    of  the   30th    Anniversary  of   his 
Ordination,  Dec.  11,  1854-Dec.  11,  1884. 
Letter  dated  Nov.  28,  1884. 


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Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Feb.  12,  1885, 
vol.  112,  pp.  165-166. 

Letter  to  Dr.  Fordyce  Barker,  on  his  resigning  the  office  of 
President  of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Medicine. 

Proceedings  of  the  Maine  Historical  Society  on 
H.  W.  Longfellow's  78th  Birthday,  Feb.  27,  1885, 
pp.  21-22. 

Proceedings  of  the  Dedication  of  the  Fountain  in 
Eaton  Square,  Ward  24,  in  Memory  of  Theodore 
Lyman,  Jr.,  Oct.  26,  1885  (1886),  p.  53. 

Recreations  of  the  Rabelais  Club,  1882-1885. 

Dr.  Holmes's  letter  is  printed  as  a  sort  of  introduction  to  this 
second  series  of  the  "Recreations  " 

A  Testimonial  to  Charles  J.  Paine  and  Edward 
Burgess  from  the  City  of  Boston,  for  their  successful 
defence  of  the  America's  cup,  1887,  p.  151. 

Correspondence  of  John  Lothrop  Motley,  edited 
by  G.  W.  Curtis,  2  vols.,  1889. 

These  volumes  contain,  besides  many  letters  to  Dr.  Holmes 
from  Mr.  Motley,  some  eight  or  ten  letters  from  him  to  Mr. 
Motley.  See  the  Index.  Also  see  pp.  21-22,  supra.  In  a  letter 
of  Sept.,  1863  (vol.  ii>  p.  141),  Motley  speaks  in  the  warmest 
terms  of  Dr.  Holmes's  Fourth  of  July  Oration. 

Bulletin  of  the  New  York  Public  Library,  Nov., 
1890,  vol.  4,  pp.  356-357. 

New  York  "Pseudo-Critics "  in  1850.  —  A  letter,  never  before 
pubhshed,  written  by  Dr.  Holmes  to  E.  A.  Duyckinck,  Nov.  9, 
1850,  in  reply  to  a  criticism  of  "Astrsea"  in  the  Literary  World 
for  October  of  that  year,  attributed  to  Cornelius  Matthews. 

Bulletin  of  the  Harvard  Medical  School  Associa- 
tion, no.  1,  1891,  pp.  30-32.  * 

Abraham  Coles:  Biographical  Sketch,  Memorial  Trib- 
utes, etc.  (Jonathan  A.  Coles,  editor),  1892,  p.  46. 


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Sermons  and  Addresses  in  Recognition  of  the  Twenty- 
fifth  Anniversary  of  the  Installation  of  the  Rev.  Alex- 
ander McKenzie.  The  First  Church  in  Cambridge,  1892, 
pp.  57-58. 

Bryant  Centennial  at  Cummington,  Aug.  16,  1894, 
pp.  47-48. 

Daniel  Roberts,  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  A  Quaker 
of  the  Olden  Time,  being  a  memoir  of  John  Roberts,  etc. 
E.  T.  Lawrence,  editor  [London],  1898. 
Prefatory  letter  by  Dr.  Holmes. 

Passages  from  the  Correspondence  and  Other  Papers 
of  Rufus  Wilmot  Griswold,  1898,  p.  146. 
See  supra,  p.  77. 

Thoughts  and  Experiences  in  and  out  of  School, 
by  John  B.  Peaslee.  Cincinnati,  1900,  pp.  285,  287, 
293,  301,  307,  329. 

The  Story  of  My  Life.     Helen  A.  Keller,  1903. 
Letter  to  Miss  Keller,  dated  Aug.  1,  1890. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  So- 
ciety, June  9,  1904,  2d  series,  vol.  18,  pp.  346-347. 

Letter  to  Dr.  George  E.  Ellis,  describing  the  peculiar  case  of 
one  Mary  Chase;  letter  dated  June  3,  1881. 


DR.  HOLMES'S  CONTRIBUTIONS  TO 
THE  ATLANTIC  MONTHLY 

The  following  list  includes  all  of  Dr.  Holmes's  contributions 
to  the  magazine  with  which  he  was,  perhaps,  more  closely 
identified  than  any  other  person,  although  he  was  never  its 
editor.  The  poems  which  were  printed  as  parts  of  serials  and 
of  other  prose  articles  are  not  hsted. 

It  will  be  noted  that  of  the  first  sixty  volumes  of  the  Atlantic, 
the  only  ones  which  contain  nothing  from  his  pen  are  volumes 
xviii,  xxvi,  xl,  and  xliii;  and  that,  of  the  remaining  thirteen 
volumes  which  appeared  during  his  life  (volume  Ixxiii  ended  in 
June,  1894,  and  Dr.  Holmes  died  in  October),  he  was  a  con- 
tributor to  seven.  Surely  a  most  exceptional  record.  The  last 
three  contributions  were  called  forth  by  the  deaths  of  three  of 
his  contemporaries,  one  of  whom,  at  least  (the  first  editor  of  the 
Atlantic),  was  his  very  dear  friend. 

The  story  of  the  founding  of  the  Atlantic  has  been  told  many 
times,  and  is  sure  to  be  told  again,  authoritatively,  during  the 
celebration  of  its  fiftieth  anniversary,  in  1907.  It  is  well  known 
that  Dr.  Holmes  christened  the  magazine.^  His  connection  with 
its  founding  was  told  by  himself  in  the  paper  ("Dr.  Holmes's 
Reminiscence")  read  by  Mr.  H.  O.  Houghton  at  the  Holmes 
Breakfast  in  Dec,  1879  (vol.  45,  supp.);  also  by  Mr.  Scudder 
in  his  James  Russell  Lowell,  vol.  i,  p.  413,  and  by  ^Ir.  Morse 
in  the  Life  and  Letters  of  O.  W.  Holmes,  vol.  i,  pp.  204  ff. 

Volume  I:  Nov.,  1857,  to  May,  1858. 

The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  November  to  May. 

The  Homoeopathic  Domestic  Physician  [Re^aew],  December. 

Agassiz's  Natural  History  [Review],  January. 

Parthenia  [Review],  February. 
Volume  U:  June  to  Dec.,  1858. 

Dr.  Asa  Gray's  Botanical  Series  [Re^^ew],  August. 

The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  June  to  October. 

^  In  the  "  Autocrat "  (Riverside  Edition,  p.  55),  he  observes  that  the 
Atlantic  "  is  not  so  called  because  it  is  a  notion^  as  some  dull  wits  wish 
they  had  said,  but  were  too  late.'* 


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A  Visit  to  the  Autocrat's  Landlady,  November. 

Brief  Expositions  of  Rational  Medicine  [Review],  November. 

The  Last  Look,  November. 

The  Autocrat  gives  a  Breakfast  to  the  Pubhc,  December. 
Volume  III:   Jan.  to  June,  1859. 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  January  to  June. 

Mothers  and  Infants,  Nurses  and  Nursing  [Review],  May. 

The  Stereoscope  and  the  Stereograph,  June. 
Volume  IV:  July  to  Dec,  1859. 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  July  to  December. 

Love  [Review],  September. 
Volume  V:  Jan.  to  June,  1860. 

The  Professor's  Story  [Elsie  Venner],  January  to  Jime. 

The  Undergraduate  [Review],  March. 
Volume  VI:   July  to  Dec,  1860. 

The  Professor's  Story  [Elsie  Venner],  July  to  December. 
Volume  VII:  Jan.  to  June,  1861. 

The  Professor's  Story  [Elsie  Venner],  January  to  April. 

A  Visit  to  the  Asylum  for  Aged  and  Decayed  Punsters,  January. 

Brother  Jonathan's  Lament  for  Sister  Caroline,  May. 

Army  Hymn,  June. 
Volume  VIII:   July  to  Dec,  1861. 

Sun  Painting  and  Sun  Sculpture,  July. 

Parting  Hymn,  August. 

Bread  and  the  Newspaper,  September. 

The  Wormwood  Cordial  of  History,  October. 

The  Flower  of  Liberty,  November. 

Union  and  Liberty,  December. 
Volume  IX:   Jan.  to  June,  1862. 

Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union,  March. 
Volume  X:  July  to  Dec,  1862. 

The  Poet  to  the  Readers,  July. 

My  Hunt  after  the  Captain,  December. 
Volume  XI:   Jan.  to  June,  1863. 

Choose  You  this  Day  whom  Ye  will  Serve,  March. 

The  Human  Wheel,  its  Spokes  and  Felloes,  May. 


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Volume  XH:  July  to  Dec,  1863. 

Doings  of  the  Sunbeam,  July. 

The  Great  Instrument,  November. 
Volume  XIII:   Jan.  to  June,  1864. 

The  Minister  Plenipotentiary,  January. 

The  Last  Charge,  February. 

Our  Classmate  (F.  W.  C),  March. 

Our  Progressive  Independence,  April. 

Shakespeare,  June. 
Volume  XIV:   July  to  Dec,  1864. 

Hawthorne,  July. 

In  Memory  of  J.  W.  —  R.  W.,  July. 

Bryant's  Seventieth  Birthday,  December. 
Volume  XV:   Jan.  to  June,  1865. 

God  Save  the  Flag,  January. 

Our  Oldest  Friend,  March. 

Our  First  Citizen  (Edward  Everett),  April. 

Our  Battle  Laureate  (H.  H.  Brownell),  May. 
Volume  XVI:  July  to  Dec,  1865. 

No  Time  like  the  Old  Time,  October. 

A  Farewell  to  Agassiz,  November. 
Volume  XVQ:   Jan.  to  June,  1866. 

My  Annual,  April. 
Volume  XJX:   Jan.  to  June,  1867. 

The  Guardian  Angel,  Jan.  to  June. 

All  Here,  March. 
Volume  XX:   July  to  Dec,  1867. 

The  Guardian  Angel,  July  to  December. 

Chanson  without  Music,  November. 
Volume  XXI:  Jan.  to  June,  1868. 

Once  More,  April. 
Volume  XXII:   July  to  Dec,  1868. 

Bill  and  Joe,  September. 
Volume  XXHI:  Jan.  to  June,  1869. 

Cinders  from  the  Ashes,  January. 


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Volume  XXIV:  July  to  Dec,  1869. 

Bonaparte,  August  15,  1769  —  Humboldt,  September  14,  1769, 
November. 
Volume  XXV:  Jan.  to  June,  1870. 

Nearing  the  Snow-Line,  January. 

Even-Song,  March. 
Volume  XXVII:  Jan.  to  June,  1871. 

Dorothy  Q.,  a  Family  Portrait,  January. 
VoLmiE  XXVIII:   July  to  Dec,  1871. 

Life  of  Major  John  Andre  [Review],  July. 
VoLUTHE  XXIX:  Jan.  to  June,  1872. 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  January  to  June. 
Volume  XXX:   July  to  Dec,  1872. 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  July  to  December. 
Volume  XXXI:  Jan.  to  June,  1873. 

After  the  Fire,  January. 
Volume  XXXII:  July  to  Dec,  1873. 

The  Fountain  of  Youth,  August. 

A  Poem  Served  to  Order,  September. 

Sex  in  Education  [Review],  December. 
Volume  XXXIII:  Jan.  to  June,  1874. 

An  Old-Year  Song,  January. 

A  Ballad  of  the  Boston  Tea-Party,  February. 
Volume  XXXIV:  July  to  Dec,  1874. 

Professor  Jeffries  Wyman,  November. 
Volume  XXXV:  Jan.  to  June,  1875. 

The  Americanized  European,  January. 

Crime  and  Automatism,  April. 
Volume  XXXVI:  July  to  Dec,  1875. 

Old  Cambridge,  August. 

Exotics,  September. 

Volume  XXXVII:  Jan.  to  June,  1876. 

A  Familiar  letter  (To  Several  Correspondents),  January. 

"Ad  Amicos,"  March. 

A  Memorial  Tribute,  April. 


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Volume  XXXVIII:  July  to  Dec,  1876. 

How  the  Old  Horse  Won  the  Bet,  July. 
Volume  XXXIX:   Jan.  to  June,  1877. 

How  Not  to  Settle  It,  February. 

The  First  Fan,  June. 
Volume  XLI:  Jan.  to  June,  1878. 

My  Aviaiy,  January. 
Volume  XLH:  July  to  Dec.,  1878. 

The  Silent  Melody,  September. 

Volume  XLIV:  July  to  Dec,  1879. 
Vestigia  Quinque  Retrorsum,  August. 

Volume  XLV:  Jan.  to  June,  1880. 
The  Coming  Era,  January. 
The  Iron  Gate,  Supplement. 
Dr.  Holmes's  Reminiscence,  Supplement. 

VoLUiviE  XLVI:   July  to  Dec,  1880. 

The  Archbishop  and  Gil  Bias,  August. 

Benjamin  Peirce:  Astronomer,  Mathematician,  December. 
Volume  XLVII:  Jan.  to  June,  1881. 

Boston  to  Florence,  March. 

Volume  XLVHI:  July  to  Dec,  1881. 
Post  Prandial,  September. 

Volume  XLIX:  Jan.  to  June,  1882. 

Before  the  Curfew,  March. 

Our  Dead  Singer,  June. 
Volume  L:  July  to  Dec,  1882. 

At  the  Summit,  August. 
Volume  LI:   Jan.  to  June,  1883. 

An  After-Breakfast  Talk,  January. 

A  Loving-Cup  Song,  March. 

Pillow-Smoothing  Authors,  April. 

The  Flaneur,  May. 

Volume  LII:   July  to  Dec,  1883. 
King's  Chapel,  September. 


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Volume  LIII:   Jan.  to  June,  1884. 
At  the  Saturday  Club,  January. 
The  Girdle  of  Friendship,  March. 
Thomas  Gold  Appleton,  June. 

Volume  LIV:  July  to  Dec,  1884. 
Ave,  October. 

Volume  LV:   Jan.  to  June,  1885. 

The  New  PortfoHo  (A  Mortal  Antipathy),  January  to  June. 

Volume  LVI:  July  to  Dec,  1885. 

The  New  PortfoHo  (A  Mortal  Antipathy),  July  to  December. 
Two  Anniversary  After-Dinner  Poems,  August. 

Volume  LVII:  Jan.  to  June,  1886. 

The  New  Portfoho  (A  Cry  from  the  Study),  January. 
The  New  PortfoHo  (Two  Occasional  Poems  with  an  Interlude), 
March. 

Volume  LVITI:   July  to  Dec,  1886. 

The  New  PortfoHo  (A  Prospective  Visit),  July. 
Poem  on  the  Two  Hundred  and  Fiftieth  Anniversary  of   the 
Foundation  of  Harvard  University,  Supplement. 

Volume  LIX:  Jan.  to  June,  1887. 

Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe,  March  to  June. 

Volume  LX:  July  to  Dec,  1887. 

Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe,  July  to  October. 

Volume  LXI:   Jan.  to  June,  1888. 
After  "Our  Hundred  Days,"  January. 
Over  the  Teacups,  March. 

Volume  LXHI:   Jan.  to  June,  1889. 
To  James  Russell  Lowell,  April. 

Volume  LXV:  Jan.  to  June,  1890. 
Over  the  Teacups,  January  to  June. 

Volume  LXVI:  July  to  Dec,  1890. 
Over  the  Teacups,  July  to  November. 
But  One  Talent,  December. 


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Volume  LXVni:  July  to  Dec,  1891. 

James  Russell  Lowell,  October. 
Volume  LXX:  July  to  Dec,  1892. 

In  Memory  of  John  Greenleaf  Wliittier,  November. 
Volume  LXXIII:  Jan.  to  June,  1894. 

Francis  Parkman,  February. 


BIOGRAPHY  AND  CRITICISM 


BIOGRAPHIES 

Ball,  James.  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  and  His  Works  : 
Being  a  Brief  Biography  and  Critical  Review.    London, 
Elliot  Stock,  62,  Paternoster  Row,  1878. 
16mo,  pp.  199. 
Brown,  Emma  Elizabeth.  life  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Boston,  D.  Lothrop  &  Co.  [c.  1884.] 
12mo,  pp.  302;   portrait. 

On  p.  302  (unnumbered)  is  a  brief  and  valueless  bibliography. 
The  portrait  is  shocking  and  the  whole  book  is  atrocious  from 
a  mechanical  standpoint. 

Jerrold,  W^alter.     Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.     London, 
Swan  Sonnenschein  &  Co.;  New  York,  Macmillan  &  Co., 
1893. 
24mo,  pp.  vi,  144. 

"The  Iron  Gate"  is  printed  on  pp.  139-142.  On  pp.  143-144 
is  a  so-called  bibliography,  which  is  simply  a  list  of  the  volumes 
of  the  Riverside  Edition,  with  the  contents  of  each.  Through- 
out the  volume  Dr.  Holmes's  father  is  called  Ahdiel  instead  of 
Abiel. 
Kennedy,  William  Sloane.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes, 
Poet,  Litterateur,  Scientist.  Boston,  S.  E.  Cassino  <&  Co., 
1883. 

12mo,  pp.  356;   portrait. 

This  volume  contains  a  valuable,  although  incomplete,  bib- 
liography of  Dr.  Holmes's  writings:  Appendix  II,  pp.  334-350. 

Morse,  John  Torrey,  Jr.  Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes.  Boston  and  New  York,  Houghton, 
Mifflin  &  Co.,  1896. 


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2  vols.,  crown  8vo,  pp.  viii,  356,  and  vi,  335;  portraits, 
facsimiles,  and  cuts.  Many  letters  are  included  in  these 
volumes;  also  a  number  of  bits  of  verse  not  previously 
printed;  see,  in  addition  to  those  reprinted  in  the  present 
compilation,  pp.  66,  249,  297,  and  353  of  vol.  i. 
Smith,  J.  E.  A. 

The  Poet  among  the  Hills.  OHver  Wendell  Holmes  in 
Berkshire.  His  Berkshire  Poems;  some  of  them  now  first 
published,  with  Historic  and  Descriptive  Incidents  con- 
cerning the  Poems,  the  Poet,  and  his  Literary  Neigh- 
bors. His  Poetic,  Personal  and  Ancestral  Relations  to  the 
County.  Pittsfield,  G.  Blatchford,  1895. 

12mo,  pp.  182;  portraits  of  Holmes  and  Longfellow, 
and  5  full-page  plates. 

This  volume  contains,  inter  alia.  Dr.  Holmes's  speech  at  the 
"Jubilee  Dinner"  at  Pittsfield,  August  23,  1844  (pp.  65-66); 
his  poem  on  the  same  occasion  (pp.  67-68);  his  poem,  "The 
Vision"  (pp.  104-105);  his  speech  at  the  Pittsfield  Young 
Ladies*  Institute  graduating  exercises,  in  1849  (pp.  110-111); 
his  poem  on  the  same  occasion,  "A  Vision  of  Life"  (pp.  111- 
113);  his  "Report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Plowing-Match " 
at  the  Cattle-show  of  the  Berkshire  Agricultural  Society,  in 
1849,  closing  with  the  poem,  "The  Plowman,"  written  for  that 
occasion  (pp.  129-133);  the  Dedicatory  Poem  of  Pittsfield 
Cemetery,  September  9,  1850  (pp.  140-144);  his  poem,  "The 
New  Eden,"  read  at  the  anniversary  dinner  of  the  Berksliire 
Horticultural  Society,  September  13,  1854  (pp.  146-150); 
his  poem,  "Camilla,"  pp.  153-154;  other  poems,  without  titles 
(pp.  155-157);  and  letters  (pp.  47,  90-93,  94).  Of  the  poems 
mentioned,  "A  Vision  of  Life,"  "Camilla,"  and  those  without 
titles  seem  never  to  have  been  pubhshed  in  any  collection  of  Dr. 
Holmes's  poems.  They  are  reprinted  in  the  first  part  of  this 
bibhography,  imder  their  respective  titles;  see  supra,  pp.  14, 
19,  25,  87.  "The  Vision,"  said  by  the  author  to  have  been 
written  and  used  as  an  epilogue  to  a  lecture  on  Wordsworth 
in  his  Lowell  Institute  Course  on  the  Enghsh  Poets  of  the  Nine- 
teenth Century,  was  first  printed  in  the  Knickerbocker  Gallery, 
1855,  pp.  23-26,  under  the  title,  "A  Vision  of  the  Housatonic;" 
in  Songs  in  Many  Keys,  1862,  it  appears  under  the  title  it  has 
since  retained,  "After  a  Lecture  on  Wordsworth." 


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VossioN,  Louis.     Un  Poete  Americain.     Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes.     Paris,  E.  Dentu.    [1896.] 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  26.  Signed  L.  V.,  and  dated  at  the 
end,  "Philadelphie,  15  Aout,  1895." 


Such  bibliographies  of  Holmes  as  have  hitherto  been 
published  are  hardly  of  a  nature  to  call  for  Usting  in  a 
separate  category.  In  addition  to  those  which  are  noted 
in  the  preceding  biographies,  the  following  may  be  men- 
tioned. 

Arnold,  William  Harris.  First  Editions  of  Bryant, 
Emerson,  Hawthorne,  Holmes,  Longfellow,  Lowell, 
Thoreau,  Whittier.  Collected  by  William  Harris  Arnold, 
1901. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  11,  1894, 
vol.  131,  pp.  379-380. 

Bibliography  of  Dr.  Holmes's  Writings  on  Medical 
and  Scientific  Subjects. 

Foley,  Patrick  Kevin.  American  Authors,  1795-1895. 
A  Bibliography  of  First  and  Notable  Editions,  Chrono- 
logically Arranged,  with  Notes,  1897,  pp.  129-142. 

Livingston,  Luther  S.  The  First  Books  of  Some  Ameri- 
can Authors.    II,  Longfellow,  Lowell,  Holmes,  Bryant. 
Bookman,  Oct.,  1898,  vol.  8.    Holmes  on  pp.  141-142. 

Page,  Curtis  Hidden.   The  Chief  American  Poets.   Bos- 
ton, 1905. 
Bibliographical  matter  on  p.  645. 

Stone,  Herbert  Stuart.     First  Editions  of  American 
Authors,  1893. 
Hohnes  on  pp.  100-105. 


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n 

SIGNED  ESSAYS,  REVIEWS,  etc. 

Addison,  Daniel  Dulany.   The  Clergy  in  American  Life 
and  Letters  (London),  1900. 
See  Index  to  the  book. 

Allen,  Alexander  V.  G.     Life  and  Letters  of  Phillips 
Brooks,  1900,  vol.  ii,  p.  686. 

F.  M.  B.    With  the  Autocrat. 

Lippincott*s  Magazine,  Jan.,  1875,  vol.  55,  pp.  107-110. 

Barker,  Dr.  Fordyce,  A  Toast  from,  to  Drs.  Holmes 
and  Bigelow. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Jan.  11, 1883,  vol.  108, 
pp.  45-46. 

Barrows,  Isabel  C.  Dr.  Holmes  and  the  Robin. 
Outlook,  Oct.  27,  1894,  vol.  50,  pp.  663-664. 
Christian  Register,  Nov.  8,  1894,  vol.  73,  pp.  736-737. 

Bates,  Katharine  Lee.    American  Literature,  1898,  pp. 
154-159,  227-232. 

Beers,  Henry  A.     Initial  Studies  in  American  Letters, 
1895,  pp.  136-143. 

Bellows,  Albert  J.,  M.  D.    Currents  and  Counter-Cur- 
rents in  Medical  Science,  reviewed  in  an  Address  delivered 
before  the  Boston  Academy  of  Homoeopathic  Medicine. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  27.    Boston,  1860. 

Bid  WELL,  W.  H.   Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Eclectic  Magazine,  May,  1873,  vol.  80,  p.  632. 

Bolton,  Sarah  K.    OHver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Famous  American  Authors,  1887,  pp.  133-155. 
BowEN,  Francis.  Urania,  a  Rhymed  Lesson  [Review], 

North  American  Review,  Jan.,  1847,  vol.  64,  pp.  208-216. 


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Boyd,  A.  K.  H.      Oliver  Wendell    Holmes  [Review  of 
Morse's  Life  and  Letters]. 
Longman's  Magazine,  Aug.,  1896,  vol.  28,  pp.  344-356. 

Brunnemann,  Dr.  K.  Geschichte  der  Nordamerikanischen 
Literatur  [pamphlet],  1868,  pp.  115-116. 

Burton,  Richard.  Literary  Leaders  of  America,  1903, 
pp.  204-220. 

P.  A.  C.  How  to  Study  the  Chambered  Nautilus  [A  School 
of  Literature]. 
Poet-Lore,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  6,  pp.  570-576. 

Chadwick,  John  White.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Forum,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  18,  pp.  279-287. 

.   Morse's  Holmes. 

Nation,  June  11,  1896,  vol.  62,  pp.  456-458. 

Chamberlain,  Daniel  H.  John  Lothrop  Motley  [Review 
of  Motley's  Correspondence  and  of  Holmes's  Memoir  of 
Motley]. 

New  Englander  and  Yale  Review,  Oct.,  1890,  vol.  247,  pp. 
297-330. 

Cheever,  David  W^.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  the  Ana- 
tomist. 

Harvard  Graduates'  Magazine,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  3,  pp.  154- 
159. 

Childs,  George  W.  Recollections,  1890,  pp.  26-27. 

Clarke,  H.  V. 

Munsey's  Magazine,  vol.  7,  p.  400. 

Closson,  W.  B.  Homes  and  Haunts  of  the  Poets.  Holmes. 
Original  Etchings.    Boston,  L.  Prang  &  Co.  (c.  1886.) 
Oblong  12mo. 

Portrait. 

Autograph. 

Holmes  House  (Cambridge). 

Study  (Boston). 


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View  from  Study  Window.  \ 

Humility  Flat,  which  is  below  Pride's  Crossing   (Beverly 
Farms). 

Collins,  Churton.  The  Poetry  and  Poets  of  America. 

Cone,  Helen  Gray. 

Critic,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  25,  pp.  243-244. 
Cook,  Keningale.    American  Novelists,  iv.  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes. 

Belgravia,  April,  1873,  vol.  20,  pp.  222-232. 

Cooke,  George  Willis.    Dr.  Holmes  at  Fourscore. 

New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1889,  n.  s.  vol.  1,  pp.  115- 
123. 

Crandall,  Charles  H.    Biographical  Sketch. 

Representative  Sonnets  by  American  Poets,  1890,  pp.  332- 
333.  • 

CuLLiNGWORTH,  C.  J.  OHver  Wendell  Holmes  and  the 
Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever.  An  address  delivered 
at  Marlborough,  Wiltshire,  to  the  Trowbridge  division 
of  the  Bath  and  Bristol  branch  of  the  British  Medical 
Association,  Oct.  28, 1905. 
8vo,  London,  1906. 

Curtis,  George  W^illiam.   Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Harper's  Monthly,  July,  1891,  vol.  83,  pp.  277-285. 
Literary  and  Social  Essays,  1895,  pp.  205-235. 

Delille,  Edward.   Oliver  W^endell  Holmes. 

Fortnightly  Review,  Aug.,  1886,  vol.  46,  pp.  235-243. 

Deshler,  Charles  D.    Afternoons  with  the  Poets,  1879, 
pp.  308-309 ;  including  the  poem  "  Joseph  Warren." 

DoEHN,  Dr.  Rudolf.    Aus  dem  Amerikanischen  Dichter- 
wald.     Literar-historische  Skizzen. 
8vo,  Leipzig,  Otto  Wigandy  1881. 

Dr.  Holmes  is  discussed  on  pp.  130-132.   On  the  title-page  is 
this  quotation  in  English :  — 

"The  realm  of  Song  and  Beauty 
Is  the  only  home  of  Truth. 

"  Charles  G.  Leland." 


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DwiGHT,  Thomas.    Reminiscences  of  Dr.  Holmes  as  Pro- 
fessor of  Anatomy. 
Scribner's  Magazine,  Jan.,  1895,  vol.  17,  pp.  121-128. 
Fields,  Annie.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Warner's  Library  of  the  World's*  Best  Literature,  vol.  xiii, 
pp.  7457-7462. 

.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  Personal  Recollections  and 

L^npublished  Letters. 
Century  Magazine,  Feb.,  1895,  n.  s.  vol.  27,  pp.  505-516. 
Authors  and  Friends,  1896,  pp.  107-155. 

FiNDLAY,  William,  M.  D.  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Robert  Burns  and  the  Medical  Profession  (London),  1898 
pp.  107-110;  with  extracts  from  the  Bm-ns  Centennial  poem. 

Fisher,  Mary.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (1809-1894). 

General  Survey  of  American  Literature,  1899,  pp.  260-275. 

Foster,  Margaret. 

Hand-Book  of  American  Literature  (London),  1854,  pp 
82-84. 

H.  L.  G.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Dublin  University  Magazine,  Sept.,  1874,  vol.  84,  pp.  376-382 

Gannett,  W.  G.  Outlines  for  a  Study  of  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes. 

Outline  Studies  in  Holmes,  Bryant,  Whittier,  1887,  pp.  3-8 
(Unity  Club  Leaflets). 

Studies  in  Longfellow,  Whittier,  Holmes,  and  Lowell,  1898, 
pp.  63-74  (Riverside  Literature  Series,  no.  12). 

Gilder,   Jeannette   L.     A  Book  and  its   Story.     The 
Genial "  Autocrat "  [Review  of  Morse's  Life  and  Letters]. 
Critic,  May  9,  1896,  vol.  28,  pp.  325-327. 

GiLMAN,  Arthur.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Harvard  Register,  April,  1881,  vol.  3,  pp.  185-188. 

GossE,  Edmund.  An  English  View  of  the  "Autocrat." 
,    Critic,  Dec.  1, 1894,  vol.  25,  pp.  382-383  (from  the  St.  James 
Gazette). 


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Green,  R.  F.    OKver  Wendell  Holmes :  his  writings  and 
philosophy. 

Proceedings  Lit.  and  Phil.  Soc.,  Liverpool,  1880-81,  vol.  35, 
pp.  215-247. 

Griswold,  Hattie  Tyng.   Ohver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Home-Life  of  Great  Authors,  1888,  pp.  251-261. 

Griswold,  Rufus  Wilmot. 

The  Prose  Writers  of  America,  second  edition,  1870,  sup- 
plement, pp.  620-622. 

Hale,    Edward    Everett.     An    Afternoon    with    Dr. 
Holmes. 
McClure*s  Magazine,  May,  1893,  vol.  1,  pp.  90. 
Human  Documents,  1895. 

.  Oliver    Wendell    Holmes    (including    letters    from 

friends  of  Dr.  H.). 
Critic,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  25,  pp.  242-246. 

.  Lnpressions  of  Dr.  Holmes. 

Outlook,  Oct.  20,  1894,  vol.  50,  pp.  622-623. 

.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Review  of  Reviews,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  10,  pp.  495-501. 

.   Personal  Recollections  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


Arena,  Dec,  1895,  vol.  15,  pp.  21-28. 

Hale,  Enoch.    Boylston  Prize  Dissertations  for  the  years 
1836  and  1837  [Review]. 
North  American  Review,  July,  1838,  vol.  47,  pp.  161-177. 

Hapgood,  Norman.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

American  Prose,  edited  by  George  Rice   Carpenter,  1898, 
pp.  303-307. 

Hart,  Ernest.   Notes  of  a  Conversation  with  Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes,  Sept.  13,  1893. 

British  Medical  Journal,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  2  of  that  year, 
pp.  833-834. 

Hatfield,  Edwin  F.   Poets  of  the  Church,  1884,  pp.  335- 
38. 
The  "Hymn  of  Trust'*  is  included. 


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HiGGiNSON,  Thomas  Wentworth.  Cheerful  Yesterdays, 
1898;  see  Index. 

.     Contemporaries,  1899;  see  Index. 

.     Old  Cambridge,  1900,  pp.  73-108. 

.     Henry  Wadsworth  Longfellow  (American  Men  of 

Letters  Series),  1902,  pp.  194,  287;  and  see  Index. 

HiGGiNsoN,  Thomas  Wentworth,  and  Henry  Walcott 
BoYNTON.  A  Reader's  History  of  American  Literature, 
1903,  pp.  154-160. 

Hodge,  Hugh  L.,  M.  D.  On  the  Non-Contagious  Character 
of  Puerperal  Fever:  An  Introductory  Lecture,  delivered 
Monday,  Oct.  11,  1852.  Philadelphia,  0.  K.  iSc  P.  G. 
Collins,  1852. 

Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  52. 

See  Medical  Essays,  pp.  109-110,  and  Morse's  Life  and  Let- 
ters, vol.  i,  p.  164.  Dr.  Holmes  is  not  mentioned  by  name. 

HoDGKiNs,  Louise  Manning.  A  Guide  to  the  Study  of 
Holmes,  1888,  pp.  12  (unpaged). 

Howe,  Julia  Ward.  Reminiscences  (1819-1899),  1899, 
pp.  277-280. 

Howe,  Mark  Antony  DeWolfe.    American  Bookmen, 
XII.  Longfellow  and  Holmes. 
Bookman,  May,  1898,  vol.  7,  pp.  217-228. 
American  Bookmen,  1898,  pp.  265-286. 

HowELLS,  William  Dean.    Mechanism  in  Thought  and 
Morals  [Review]. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  May,  1871,  vol.  27,  pp.  653-654. 

.  The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table  [Review]. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec.,  1872,  vol.  30,  pp.  745-746. 

.  Songs  of  Many  Seasons  [Review]. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1875,  vol.  35,  pp.  10.5-106. 

.    The  School-Boy  [Review]. 


Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1879,  vol.  43,  pp.  120-121. 


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HowELLS,  William  Dean.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Harper's  Monthly,  Dec,  1896,  vol.  94,  pp.  120-134. 
.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    Literary  Friends  and  Ac- 
quaintance, 1900,  pp.  146-177. 
Hughes,  James  L.    An  Hour  with  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Canadian  Magazine  of  Politics,  Science,  Art,  and  Literature, 
Dec,  1893,  vol.  2,  pp.  134-141 ;  with  portrait  and  facsimiles. 
Hughes,  Sarah  Forbes.     Letters  and  Recollections  of 
John  Murray  Forbes,   1899,  vol.  i,  pp.  34-35;  vol.  ii, 
pp.  159-160. 

On  p.  35  of  vol.  i,  is  a  poem  —  "  To  J.  M.  F.  on  his  Eightieth 
Birthday,  February  23,  1813-February  23,  1893  "  — apparently 
not  before  published.    See  p.  80,  supra. 

Ingham,  John  H.    The  Poetical  Works  of  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes. 
Academy,  Jan.  7,  1882,  vol.  21,  pp.  4-5. 

"Jehu  Junior."     Men  of  the  Day.     No.  ccclxii.     Dr. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.   With  burlesque  portrait. 
Vanity  Fair  (London),  June  19,  1886. 

"  Bom  seven  and  seventy  years  ago  at  Cambridge,  Massachu- 
setts, he  took  his  degree  at  the  age  of  twenty  from  Harvard 
University,  and  devoted  himself  to  the  study  of  the  Law.  But 
after  a  few  months  he  found  that  the  Law  bored  him,  and  he 
determined  to  follow  Medicine.  He  accordingly  came  to  Eu- 
rope, walked  the  Paris  Hospitals,  took  various  medical  degrees, 
and  on  his  return  to  his  native  land,  married,  became  the  fash- 
ionable Boston  doctor,  and  took  to  Literature;  and,  altliough 
he  has  filled  for  five  and  thirty  years,  to  the  great  delight  of 
the  students  and  the  amazement  of  his  brother  Professors, 
the  Chair  of  Anatomy  at  Harvard,  it  is  to  liiterature  that  he 
belongs. 

"He  has  written  a  great  many  books.  His  poems  are  quite 
harmless  and  full  of  common  sense  and  flippancy.  They  range 
from  Commemoration  Odes  to  Valentines,  and  are  excellent 
examples  of  what  poetry  ought  not  to  be.  His  novels  are  an 
artistic  combination  of  romance  and  physiology.  They  are  very 
fantastic,  very  imaginative,  and  read  like  the  conversation  of 
a  medical  student  in  love.    His  essays  are  a  sort  of  Montaigne 


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for  families,  and  can  be  highly  recommended.  He  is  the  last 
of  the  laughing  philosophers,  and  the  author  of  the  wise  maxim, 
'  Give  me  the  luxuries  of  life,  and  I  will  do  without  its  neces- 
saries.* His  style  scintillates  with  wit,  and,  when  it  is  at  its 
best,  has  all  the  charm  of  an  exploding  cracker.  His  chief  qual- 
ity is  his  wonderful  versatility.  When  he  writes  poetry,  he  is  a 
professor.  When  he  lectures  on  anatomy,  he  is  a  poet.  His 
novels  are  the  notebooks  of  a  physician;  and  his  philosophy 
is  the  kindly  observation  of  a  man  of  the  world,  the  wisdom  of 
one  who  has  dined  well. 

"Personally,  he  is  a  brisk,  dapper  little  man,  very  brilliant 
and  very  bright-eyed;  a  Puck  without  malice,  an  Ariel  with  a 
sense  of  humour.  He  is  very  much  loved  by  all  who  know  him, 
for  he  has  a  wholesome  dread  of  people  who  impart  useful  in- 
formation, and  thinks  that  serious  conversation  is  a  form  of 
solemn  trifling.  Attic  wit,  Yankee  humour,  a  very  large  supply 
of  human  nature,  and  an  absence  of  any  ambition  to  be  presi- 
dent, have  made  him  the  most  popular  man  in  America.  He 
has  been  made  much  of  recently  in  Ixjndon  Society,  and  has 
delighted  the  Duchesses,  for,  unlike  many  Society  lions,  he  has 
the  most  genial  manners  and  no  mane.  On  the  whole,  he  is  a 
great  success.  Though  a  Bostonian,  he  is  not  a  prig;  though 
a  brilliant  conversationalist,  he  can  listen;  and  though  seventy- 
seven  years  of  age,  he  is  still  a  very  young  man." 

According  to  Mr.  Morse  nobody  appreciated  the  very  clever 
caricature,  which  this  text  accompanied,  more  thoroughly  than 
Dr.  Holmes  himself. 

Johnson,  Edward  Gilpin.   The  Prose  Writings  of  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes  [Review  of  vols,  i-vi  of  Riverside  Edi- 
tion]. 
Dial,  Nov.,  1891,  vol.  12,  pp.  209-211. 

.   [Review  of  Morse's  Life  and  Letters.] 

Dial,  May  16,  1896,  vol.  20,  pp.  299-302. 

Kneeland,  Sam'l,  Jr.,  M.  D.    On  the  Contagiousness  of 
Puerperal   Fever,   and  its   Connection   with   Epidemic 
Erysipelas.    Boston,  1856. 
Pamphlet,  8vo,  pp.  19. 

Dr.  Holmes's  essay  is  frequently  cited  with  approval,  espe- 
cially on  pp.  7-10. 


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Lamont,  a.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    His  Touch  with 
Nature  and  Humanity. 
Sunday  Magazine,  Sept.,  1889,  vol.  18,  pp.  588-595. 

Lang,  Andrew.  Adventures  among  Books,  1905,  pp.  79- 
96. 

Lathrop,  George  Parsons.    The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other 
Poems. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Nov.,  1880,  vol.  46,  p.  705. 

Lawrence,  Eugene.  A  Primer  of  American  Literature, 
1880,  pp.  104-105,  109. 

Lawton,  William  Cranston.  Introduction  to  the  Study 
of  American  Literature,  1902,  pp.  215-224. 

.    Holmes's  The  Last  Leaf. 

The  New  England  Poets,  1898,  pp..  232-254. 
Le  Baron,  Grace.  In  the  Autocrat's  Library. 

National  Magazine,  Dee.,  1896,  vol.  5,  pp.  231-236.    With 
portrait  and  photograph  of  library. 

Lewin,  Walter.  A  Mortal  Antipathy,  etc.  [Review]. 
Academy,  Jan.  16,  1886,  vol.  29,  p.  37. 

.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Academy,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  46,  p.  279. 
Lodge,  Henry  Cabot.  Dr.  Holmes. 

North  American  Review,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  159,  pp.  669-677. 

Certain  Accepted  Heroes  and  Other  Essays,  1897,  pp.  135- 
154. 

Longfellow,  Samuel.  Life  of  Henry  Wadsworth  Long- 
fellow, with  Extracts  from  his  Journal  and  Correspond- 
ence, 3  vols.,  1886;  see  Index. 

Love  JOY,  George  Newell.  Lunch  with  Dr.  Holmes. 

Author,  Nov.  15, 1889,  vol.  1,  pp.  167-169  (from  the  Chicago 
Tribune). 

Lowell,  James  Russell.    A  Fable  for  Critics. 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  vol.  iii,  pp.  84-85. 
.    Elsie  Venner  [Review]. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  April,  1861,  vol.  7,  pp.  509-511. 


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Lowell,  James  Russell.     Letters,  2  vols..  New  York, 
1894;  the  same,  3  vols.,  Boston,  1904.  Edited  by  Charles 
Eliot  Norton. 
These  volumes  contain  many  letters  to  Dr.  Holmes. 

Lowell,  Percival.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Proceedings  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences, 
May  8,  1895,  vol.  30,  pp.  555-562. 

Ludlow,  J.  M.    Elsie  Venner  and  Silas  Maraer:  a  Few 
Words  on  Two  Noteworthy  Novels. 
Macmillan's  Magazine,  Aug.,  1861,  vol.  4,  pp.  305-309. 

Macrae,  David.  OUver  Wendell  Holmes  in  1864. 

Pen  Pictures  of  Modern  Authors  (The  Literary  Life,  n), 
William  Shepard,  editor,  pp.  144-149. 

ML^TTHEWS,  Brander.  An  Introduction  to  the  Study  of 
American  Literature,  1896  (illustrated),  pp.  170-183. 

ML^.TTHEWS,  Cornelius  [?].    Review  of  "Astrsea." 
Literary  World,  Oct.  26,  1850. 
See  "New  York  *  Pseudo-Critics  *  in  1850,"  supra,  p.  234. 

May,  Samuel.   Dr.  Holmes  with  his  Classmates. 

Harvard  Graduates*  Magazine,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  3,  pp.  159- 
162. 

Meigs,  Charles  D.,  M.  D.  On  the  Nature,  Signs,  and 
Treatment  of  Childbed  Fevers,  in  a  Series  of  Letters 
addressed  to  the  Students  of  his  Class.  Philadelphia, 
Blanchard  &  Lea,  1854. 

See  Medical  Essays,  pp.  110  ff.,  and  Morse's  Life  and  Letters, 
vol.  i,  p.  164.  The  contagiousness  of  puerperal  fever  is  dis- 
cussed in  the  Sixth  Letter,  and  Dr.  Holmes's  name  is  mentioned 
rather  slightingly  on  p.  93.  See  also  pp.  99-100.  The  "  un- 
palatable expression "  referred  to  by  Dr.  Holmes  in  the  intro- 
duction to  the  reprint  of  his  essay  on  that  subject  (Medical 
Essays,  p.  110)  occurs  on  p.  113.    See  Appendix,  p.  313,  infra. 

Merrill,  George  B.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    A  paper 
read  at  the  Twenty-First  Annual  Dinner  of  the  Harvard 
Club  of  San  Francisco,  Oct.  18,  1894. 
Pamphlet,  Bvo,  pp.  27. 


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Mitchell,  Donald  Grant  (Ik  Marvel).    Poet  and  Pro- 
fessor; as  autocrat. 
American  Lands  and  Letters,  1899,  vol.  ii,  pp.  331-364. 

MiTFORD,  Mary  Russell.   American  Poets.    Oliver  Wen- 
dell Holmes. 
Recollections  of  a  Literary  Life,  1858,  pp.  399-410. 

Morse,  James  Herbert.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Critic,  April  28,  1883,  vol.  3,  pp.  191-192. 

Morse,  John  Torrey,  Jr.     Memoir  of  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes,  D.  C.  L. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  1897,  2d 
series,  vol.  11,  pp.  47-66. 

Morse,  Mary  Blake.    Letters  of  Dr.  Holmes  to  a  Class- 
mate. 
Century  Magazine,  Oct.,  1897;  n.  s.  vol.  32,  pp.  946-949. 

Moulton,  Louise  Chandler  [Review  of  Morse's  Life 
and  Letters]. 
Bookman,  July,  1896,  vol.  3,  pp.  417-420. 

Neidhard,  Charles,  M.  D.    An  Answer  to  the  Homoeo- 
pathic Delusions  of  Dr.  Oliver  W^endell  Holmes.     Kuttvov 
(TKtas  ovap.    By  Charies  Neidhard,  M.  D.     Ovk  6vap  dAA' 
vTrap.    Philadelphia,  1842. 
Pamphlet,  Svo,  pp.  36. 

*'\Mien  I  published  my  lectures  on  Homoeopathy  and  its  Kin- 
dred Delusions,  I  had  three  formal  pamphlets,  besides  miscel- 
laneous newspaper  squibs,  launched  at  my  head  —  from  Boston, 
Providence,  and  Philadelphia."  —  O.  W.  H.  to  Dr.  J.  C.  War- 
ren, April  14, 1873,  quoted  in  Morse's  Life  and  Letters,  vol.  i, 
p.  350. 

The  three  pamphlets  were  Dr.  Neidhard 's.  Dr.  Okie's,  and 
Dr.  Wesselhoeft's. 

Newcomer,  A.  G.  American  Literature,  1901,  pp.  230-241. 

NiCHOL,  John.  American  Literature ;  an  Historical  Sketch 
[Edinburgh],  1882,  pp.  249-250,  357-361,  407-411. 


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Noble,  James  Ashcroft.   Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Leisure  Hour,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  44,  pp.  82-88. 
Impressions  and  Memories,  1895,  pp.  19-35. 

Okie,  A.  H.,  M.  D.  Homoeopathy :  with  particular  refer- 
ence to  a  Lecture  by  O.  W.  Holmes,  M.  D.  Providence, 
1842. 

Onderdonk,  James  L.  History  of  American  Verse  (1610- 
1897),  1901,  pp.  268-279;  and  see  Index. 

Osler,  William.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Johns  Hopkins  Hospital  Bulletin,  Oct.,  1894. 
Reprinted  in  pamphlet  form,  8vo,  pp.  10. 

Oswald,  Felix  L.    Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes's  Health 
Code. 
Chautauquan,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  20,  pp.  321-325. 
Page,  Curtis  Hidden.  Biographical  Sketch. 
The  Chief  American  Poets,  1905,  pp.  677-679. 

Palfrey,  John  G.     Poems  by  Ohver  Wendell  Holmes 
[Review  of  1st  edition]. 
North  American  Review,  Jan.,  1837,  vol.  44,  pp.  275-277. 

.    Urania  [Review]. 

North  American  Review,  Jan.,  1847,  vol.  64,  pp.  208-216. 

Palmer,  Ray.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

International  Review,  May,  1880,  vol.  8,  pp.  501-514. 

Pancoast,  Henry  S. 

An  Introduction  to  American  Literature,  1900,  pp.  211-218. 

Payne,  W.  M.    Little  Leaders,  1895. 

Pennell,  Elizabeth  Robins. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1905,  vol.  95,  pp.  312-313  ("A 
Bundle  of  Old  Letters"). 

Charles  Godfrey  Leland,  1906;  see  Index. 

Phelps,  Elizabeth  Stuart. 

McClure's  Magazine,  vol.  7,  p.  114. 


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Porter,  Maria  S.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Bostonian,  June,  1895,  vol.  2,  pp.  243-253;  with  portrait  and 
facsimiles. 

Prothero,  R.  E.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Longman's  Magazine,  July,  1886,  vol.  8,  pp.  300-306. 

Putnam,  Alfred  Porter,  editor.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Singers  and  Songs  of  the  Liberal  Faith,  1875,  pp.  252-261. 
(Biog.  sketch,  pp.  252-253;  poems,  254-261.) 

Putnam,  James  Jackson.   A  Memoir  of  Dr.  James  Jack- 
son, with  Sketches  of  his  Father,  etc.    Boston  and  New 
York,  Houghton,  Mifflin  &  Co.,  1905. 
See  Index  for  references  to  Dr.  Holmes,  letters,  etc. 

Richardson,  Charles  F. 

A  Primer  of  American  Literature,  1878,  pp.  58-60. 
American  Literature,  1607-1885  (1889),  vol.  ii,  pp.  204-218. 

RiDEiNG,  William  H.   Holmes  in  Cambridge  and  Boston. 
Chautauquan,  Oct.,  1887,  vol.  8,  pp.  15-16. 
Boyhood  of  Living  Authors,  1887,  pp.  1-15. 

Roe,  Alfred  S.    American  Authors  and  their  Birthdays; 
Programmes  and  Suggestions  for  the  Celebration  of  the 
Birthdays  of  Authors,  1887,  pp.  22-28. 
Riverside  Literature  Series,  A. 

Rollins,  Alice  Wellington.    Authors  at  Home,  iv.  Dr. 
OHver  Wendell  Holmes  in  Beacon  St. 
Critic,  Jan.  3,  10,  1885,  vol.  6,  pp.  1-2,  13-14. 
Authors  at  Home  (Jeannette  L.  and  Joseph  B.  Gilder),  1888, 
pp.  163-179. 

Sanborn,  Franklin  B.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Homes  and  Haunts  of  Our  Elder  Poets,  R.  H.  Stoddard, 
editor,  1881,  pp.  137-162;  with  portrait  and  facsimiles. 

Saunders,  Frederic.   Famous  Books,  1887,  pp.  196-197. 

Savage,   Minot   Judson.      The   Religion   of  Holmes's 
Poems. 


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Unity  Pulpit,  Oct.  19,  1894,  vol.  16,  no.  3.* 
Arena,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  11,  pp.  41-54. 

ScHURZ,  Carl.     Reminiscences  of  a  Long  Life. 
McClure's  Magazine,  Jan.,  1907,  vol.  28,  p.  259. 

ScuDDER,  Horace  E.   Ralph  Waldo  Emerson  [Review]. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  March,  1885,  vol.  55,  pp.  416-417. 
.    Our  Hundred  Days  in  Europe  [Review]. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1887,  vol.  60,  pp.  851-852. 

.    Biographical  Sketch. 

Masterpieces  of  American  Literature,  1891,  pp.  65-67. 

.    Dorothy  Q  [Review]. 


Atlantic  Monthly,  Jan.,  1893,  vol.  71,  p.  124. 

-.    Dr.  Holmes. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  74,  pp.  831-834. 

Biographical  Sketch. 


Poems,  Cambridge  Edition,  1895,  pp.  xi-xxi. 

.    James  Russell  Lowell.    A  Biography,  1899,  vol.  i, 

pp.  248-249,  251-252,  413,  426,  448;  vol.  ii,  pp.  83,  365; 
and  see  Lidex. 
SiMONDS,  Arthur  B.    Litroduction. 
American  Song,  1894,  pp.  91-94. 

Smalley,  George  W.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Studies  of  Men,  1895,  pp.  314-333. 

Smith,  Samuel  F.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Harvard  Graduates'  Magazine,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  3,  p.  153. 

Stearns,  Frank  Preston.    Dr.  Holmes. 

Cambridge  Sketches,  1905,  pp.  142-161. 
Stedman,  Arthur.    Biographical  Sketch. 

Library  of  American  Literature,  E.  C.  Stedman  and  Ellen 
M.  Hutchinson,  editors,  1890,  vol.  xi,  p.  529. 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.    Poets  of  America,  1885, 
pp.  273-303. 

*  On  pp.  19-20  is  the  letter  sent  by  Dr.  Holmes  to  be  read  at  the 
Whittier  Commemoration  at  the  B.  Y.  M.  C.  U.,  May  28,  1894.  See 
p.  198,  supra.  Mr.  Savage  quotes  a  number  of  the  poems. 


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Stephen,  Leslie.     Oliver  Wendell   Holmes   [Review  of 
Morse's  Life  and  Letters  of  Dr.  Holmes]. 
National  Review,  July,  1896,  vol.  27,  pp.  626-641. 
Littell's  Living  Age,  Aug.  1,  1896,  vol.  210,  pp.  259-269. 
Eclectic  Magazine,  Sept.,  1896,  vol.  127,  pp.  359-369. 
Studies  of  a  Biographer,  1898,  vol.  ii,  pp.  160-195. 

Stewart,  George,  Jr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Belford's  Monthly  Magazine,  Feb.,  1877,  vol.  1,  pp.  371-390. 
Evenings  in  the  Library  (Toronto),  1878,  pp.  52-73. 

.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Arena,  July,  1891,  vol.  4,  pp.  129-141. 

Essays  from  Reviews  (Quebec),  1892,  pp.  109-138. 

Mr.  Stewart  was  a  frequent  correspondent  of  Dr.  Holmes. 
Mr.  S.  H.  Wakeman  has  in  his  collection  an  interesting  auto- 
graph letter  to  Mr.  S.,  concerning  the  two  sonnets  written  for 
the  meeting  of  the  Harv^ard  Club  of  New  York  in  February, 
1878.    See  p.  32,  »upra. 

Sweeney,  Helen  M.   Tennyson  and  Holmes ;  a  parallel. 
Catholic  World,  Jan.,  1895,  vol.  60,  pp.  521-534. 

Taylor,  Bayard.     Oliver  Wendell  Holmes    [Review  of 
Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877]. 
Critical  Essays  and  Literary  Notes,  1897,  pp.  301-302. 

Thompson,  Alice  Meynell.  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
The  Rhythm  of  Life  and  Other  Essays,  1897  (6th  edition), 
pp.  60-67.' 

Trent,  Willlim  P.    A  History  of  American  Literature, 
1903,  pp.  419-428;  and  see  Index. 

This  book  is  published  in  the  series  Short  Histories  of  the 
Literatures  of  the  World,  edited  by  Edmund  Gosse. 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend.    My  Own  Story:  with 
Recollections  of  Noted  Persons,  1903;  see  Index. 

Underwood,  Francis  H.  Oliver  W^endell  Holmes. 
Scribner's  Monthly,  May,  1879,  vol.  18,  pp.  117-127. 
Good  Words,  1887,  vol.  28,  pp.  298-304. 


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Vaille,  Frederick  Ozni,  and  Clark,  Henry  Allen. 
OKver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  i,  pp.  253-254. 

Vedder,  Henry  C.    American  Writers  of  To-Day,  1895; 
see  Index. 

Vincent,  Leon  H.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
American  Literary  Masters,  1906,  pp.  835-355. 

Walsh,  William  Shepard.   Lowell  and  Holmes. 
Pen  Pictures  of  Modern  Authors,  1882,  pp.  135-149. 

Wendell,  Barrett.  A  Literary  History  of  America,  1900, 
pp.  407-424. 

Wesselhoeft,  Robert.    Some  Remarks  on  Dr.  O.  W. 
Holmes's  Lectures  on  Homoeopathy  and  its  Kindred 
Delusions,  communicated  to  a  friend :  "  Many  are  called, 
but  fev7  are  chosen."    Boston,  1842. 
Pamphlet,  Svo,  pp.  59. 
Contains  17  letters  and  an  appendix. 

Whipple,  Edwin  P.  [Review  of   Griswold's  Poets  and 
Poetry  of  America]. 
North  American  Review,  Jan.,  1844. 
Essays  and  Reviews,  1848. 

.    Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Science 


[Review]. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Aug.,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  253-254. 

.    American  Literature,  and  Other  Papers,  1887,  pp. 

76-78. 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.  Mirth  and  Medicine  [Re- 
view of  Poems,  1849]. 

Littell's  Living  Age,  March  17,  1849,  vol.  20,  pp.  516-518 
(from  the  National  Era). 

Literary  Recreations,  1854,  pp.  143-153. 

Prose  Works  (Riverside  Edition),  vol.  iii,  pp.  374-382. 


Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884 
Prose  Works  (Riverside  Edition),  vol.  ii,  pp.  309-311. 

Wilson,  James  Grant.  Dr.  Holmes  and  Old  Ironsides. 
Bookman,  May,  1904,  vol.  19,  pp.  315-317. 

WooDBERRY,  George  Edward.    Before  the  Curfew,  and 
Other  Poems  [Review]. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  July,  1888,  vol.  62,  pp.  123-125. 

.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Nation,  Oct.  11,  1894,  vol.  59,  pp.  264-265. 

.    America  in  Literature,  1903,  pp.  108-109. 


Wright,  Henrietta  Christian.  Children's  Stories  in 
American  Literature  (1660-1860),  1895,  Series  II,  pp. 
234-249. 


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III 

ESSAYS,  REVIEWS,  AND  OTHER  ANONYMOUS 
ARTICLES,  ARRANGED  IN  CHRONOLOGICAL 
ORDER 

Review  of  the  Laurel;  a  Gift  for  All  Seasons,  1836. 
Knickerbocker,  or  New  York  Monthly  Magazine,  Feb.,  1836, 
vol.  7,  p.  219. 

"The  Last  Leaf"  was  printed  in  the  Laurel,  and  a  few  lines 
of  the  review  are  devoted  to  that  poem. 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  March,  1836,  n.  s.  vol.  1,  pp. 
305-309. 

"The  Last  Leaf"  and  "Old  Ironsides"  are  reviewed  on 
pp.  306-307. 

Review  of  Poems,  1836. 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  Jan.,  1837,  n.  s.  vol.  3,  pp.  73- 
78. 

Nearly  the  whole  review  is  devoted  to  "Poetry:  a  Metrical 


The  Token  and  Atlantic  Souvenir,  1838  [Review]. 

American  Monthly  Magazine,  Nov.,  1837,  n.  s.  vol.  4,  pp.  486- 
488. 

"The  Only  Daughter,"  which  was  first  printed  in  this  issue  of 
the  Token,  is  criticised  rather  severely. 

Position   and   Prospects  of  the    Medical    Student 
PEteview]. 
Graham's  Magazine,  May,  1844,  vol.  24,  p.  240. 

Holmes  in  England  :  a  London  Edition  of  his  Poems. 

Knickerbocker  Magazine,-  Dec,  1845,  vol.  26,  pp.  570-573. 
Review  of  Poems  (London),  1846. 

Graham's  Magazine,  Jan.,  1846,  vol.  28,  p.  48. 


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Dr.  Holmes's  Introductory  Lecture  as  Parkman 
Professor,  Nov.  3,  1347. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  8  and  15, 1847, 
vol.  37,  pp.  384,  408. 
Review  of  Poems,  1849. 

North  American  Review,  Jan.,  1849,  vol.  68,  pp.  201-203. 
"  On  Lending  a  Punch-Bowl  '*  is  given  in  full. 
Graham's  Magazine,  Jan.,  1849,  vol.  34,  pp.  82-83. 
Littell's  Living  Age,  Jan.  6, 1849,  vol.  20,  p.  47. 

Astr^a  [Review]. 

Graham's  Magazine,  Dec,  1850,  vol.  37,  pp.  385-386. 
The  poem  is  called  "Astrsea:  the  Balance  of  Z)dusions." 
AsTRiEA:   Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    By  a  New  Con- 
tributor. 
Kiiickerbocker  Magazine,  Feb.,  1851,  vol.  37,  pp.  142-151. 
American  Authorship,  vi.   By  Sir  Nathaniel.   Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes. 

Colbum's  New  Monthly  Magazine,  Sept.,  1853,  vol.  99,  pp. 
77-84. 

Littell's  Living  Age,  Oct.  8,  1853,  vol.  39,  pp.  100-104. 
The  article  concludes  thus:  "On  the  whole,  here  we  have,  in 
the  words  of  a  French  critic,  *un  poete  d 'elite,  et  qui  conte: 
c'est  une  nature  individuelle  tres-fine  et  tres-marquee '  —  one 
to  whom  we  owe  '  des  vers  gracieux  et  aimables,  vifs  et  legers, 
d'une  gaiete  nuancee  de  sentiment.'  And  one  that  we  hope 
to  meet  again  and  again." 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Eclectic  Magazine,  Dec,  1853,  vol.  30,  pp.  532-536. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

National  Magazine  (New  York),  Dec,  1853,  vol.  3,  pp.  502- 
507. 

The  Poets  of  America.  4.  The  Poetical  Works  of 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  London,  1852. 

Irish  Quarteriy  Review,  June,  1855,  vol.  5,  pp.  215-220. 

Gives  an  extract  from  "Poetry;"  also  "The  Star  and  the 
Water-Lily,"  "The  Last  Leaf,"  "My  Aunt,"  "Evening,"  and 
"The  Stethoscope  Song." 


Conversation  Holmes  [Review  of  the  Autocrat  of  the 
Breakfast-Table]. 
Chambers's  Jouraal,  Jan.  22,  1859,  vol.  11,  pp.  59-61. 
Review  of  the  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table. 
Littell's  Living  Age,  March  5,  1859,  vol.  60,  pp.  630-632 
(from  the  Economist). 

American  Humour  ["Autocrat"  and  "Professor"]. 
North  British  Review,  Nov.,  1860,  vol.  33,  pp.  476-479. 

The  Professor's  Story  [Review]. 

Boston  Review,  July,  1861,  vol.  1,  pp.  384-398. 

Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  and  Elsie  Venner. 

National  Review,  July,  1861,  vol.  13,  pp.  359-372. 

Littell's  Living  Age,  Dec.  7,  1861,  vol.  71,  pp.  435-442. 
Dr.  Holmes's  Introductory  Lecture. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Nov.  14,  1861,  vol.  65, 
pp.  318-319. 

Songs  in  Many  Keys. 

Harvard  Magazine,  Dec,  1861,  vol.  8,  pp.  151-160. 

The  writer  of  this  article,  presumably  an  undergraduate,  deals 
very  severely  with  Dr.  Holmes's  poetical  talent.  He  says, 
among  other  things,  "The  present  volume  is  significantly 
entitled  *  Songs  in  Many  Keys,'  —  indeed  in  almost  every 
key  but  the  right  one,  which  it  would  be  hard  to  find  any- 
where in  the  book.  .  .  . 

"If  a  young  man  has  a  right  to  speak  critically  of  an  older 
man,  we  should  say  that  Mr.  Holmes  writes  too  much  and 
writes  too  hastily,  and  that  the  greedy  Ittst  after  the  news- 
paper reputation  of  to-day  is  but  too  dearly  gratified  in  the 
utter  wreck  of  all  literary  hopes  for  the  future." 

A  Batch  of  Last  Year's  Novels  [Review  of  Elsie  Venner]. 
Dublin  University  Magazine,  April,  1862,  vol.  59,  pp.  401- 
404. 

Review  of  Blue  and  Gold  Edition  of  Poems,  1862. 

Harvard  Magazine,  Oct.,  1862,  vol.  9,  p.  71. 
Review  of  Holmes's  Currents  and  Counter-Currents 
IN  Medical  Science. 

Boston  Review,  Nov.,  1862,  vol.  2,  pp.  583-589. 


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[Dr.  Holmes's  Introductory  Lecture.] 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Nov.  13,  1862,  vol.  67, 
p.  307. 

Verse,  Poetry  and  O.  W.  Holmes. 

Knickerbocker,  March,  1863,  vol.  61,  pp.  189-193. 

This  is  rather  a  severe  review  of  the  Blue  and  Gold  Edition 
of  the  poems.  The  reviewer's  text  is:  "his  so-called  poems  are 
only  verses.'* 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Sketches  of  Distinguished  American  Authors  represented  in 
Darley's  New  National  Picture,  entitled  Washington  Irving 
and  his  Literary  Friends  at  Sunnyside,  1863,  p.  50. 

Scholastic  and  Bedside  Teaching,  commented  on. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Nov.  7, 1867,  and  Jan. 
9, 1868,  vol.  77,  pp.  298,  479-483. 

The  Guardian  Angel  [Review]. 

Nation,  Nov.  14,  1867,  vol.  5,  pp.  390-391. 

"Your  kind  womanly  words  aflFect  me  more  gratefully  perhaps 
on  account  of  the  stinging  phrases  w^hich  have  been  made  for 
me  by  a  writer  in  the  Nation,  whose  aim  from  the  first  seems 
to  have  been  to  wound  if  possible,  to  injure  at  any  rate.  I 
suppose  I  know  who  he  is,  and  only  wonder  how  he  came  to 
take  me  for  his  souflre-dovleur.''  —  O.  W.  H.  to  Harriet  Beecher 
Stowe,  Nov.  17,  1867,  quoted  in  Morse's  Life,  vol.  ii,  p.  223. 

The  Guardian  Angel  [Review]. 

Every  Saturday,  Dec.  7,  1867,  vol.  4,  pp.  728-730. 

American  Humour.   [3]  The  Autocrat  of  the  Break- 
fast-Table. 
British  Quarterly  Review,  Oct.,  1870,  vol.  52,  pp.  324-351. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Every  Saturday,  Dec.  30,  1870,  vol.  11,  p.  642. 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table  [Review]. 
Spectator,  Nov.  23,  1872,  vol.  45,  pp.  1493-1494. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Every  Saturday,  April  26,  1873,  vol.  14,  pp.  466-469. 


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The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table  [Review]. 
Southern  Review,  July,  1873,  vol.  13,  pp.  26-36. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Appleton's  Journal,  Oct.  13,  1874,  vol.  12,  pp.  545-547. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Biographical  Sketch. 
Harvard  Book,  1875,  vol.  i,  pp.  252-253;  with  portrait. 

The  Holmes  Breakfast,  Dec.  3,  1879. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supplement,  pp.  1-24. 

Contents:  — 
Mr.  H.  O.  Houghton's  remarks  1-3 

Dr.  Hohnes's  poem,  "The  Iron  Gate  "  4-5 

Dr.  Holmes's  Reminiscence  (read  by  Mr.  Houghton)         5 
Mr.  Whittier's  poem,  "Our  Autocrat  "  5-6 

Mr.  W.  D.  Howells's  response  6-7 

Mrs.  JuHa  Ward  Howe's  remarks  and  poem  7-8 

Mr.  CD.  Warner's  speech  8-9 

Mrs.  Helen  Hunt  Jackson's  poem,  "To  OKver  Wen- 
dell Holmes  on  his  Seventieth  Birthday  "  (read  by 
Mr.  Warner)  9-10 

President  Eliot's  speech  10-11 

Mark  Twain's  explanation  11-12 

Mr.  J.  W.  Harper's  speech  12-13 

Mr.  E.  C.  Stedman's  poem  13-14 

Mr.  Aldrich's  speech  14 

Mr.     Winter's      poem  —  "Hearts     and      Holmes" 

["The  Chieftain"]  14-15 

Mr.  Trowbridge's  poem  15-16 

Mr.  Cranch's  sonnet  17 

Mr.  T.  W.  Higginson's  speech  18 

Mr.  Field's  Fairy  Tale  (not  read)  19 

In  addition,  many  letters  are  printed,  some  of  which  were  read 
at  the  Breakfast,  and  some  not. 

Poetical  Works  [Review]. 

Modern  Review,  Jan.,  1882,  vol.  3,  pp.  223-224. 

Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  on  Medicine. 

Medical  Times  and  Gazette  [London],  Sept.  16, 1882,  vol.  2 
of  that  year,  pp.  356-357. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  5,  1882,  vol.  107, 
pp.  331-332. 


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Db.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes's  Resignation  of  the 
Parkman  Professorship  of  Anatomy  in  Harvard 
University. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Nov.  2, 1882,  vol.  107, 
pp.  426-427. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The  Sanitarian,  1883,  vol.  11,  p.  337;  with  portrait. 

A  Reception  to  Drs.  Holmes  and  Bigelow. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Jan.  4,  1883,  vol.  108, 
p.  22. 

Appointment  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  Emeritus 
Professor  of  Anatomy  in  Harvard  University. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Jan.  11, 1883,  vol.  108, 
p.  46. 

The  New  York  Dinner  to  Dr.  Holmes. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  April  19,  1883,  vol. 
108,  pp.  378, 379-380. 

Presentation  of  a  Portrait  of  Professor  Holmes  to 
THE  Harvard  Medical  School. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  25, 1883,  vol.  109, 
p.  404. 

New  Facts  about  Dr.  Holmes. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  April  3, 1884,  vol.  110, 
p.  334. 

Quotation  from  an  article  on  Dr.  Hohnes,  his  writings  and  his 
philosophy,  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Literary  and  Philosophi- 
cal Society  of  Liverpool,  1881:  "Besides  the  Professorship  at 
Dartmoor,  he  founded  and  carried  on  a  medical  school  at  Fre- 
mont and  had  a  large  private  practice." 

E.  E.  Brown's  Life  of  Holmes  [Review]. 
Saturday  Review,  May  17,  1884,  vol.  57,  p.  651. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  on  his  Seventy-Fifth  Birth- 
day.   1809-1884. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  pp.  97-108. 
This  was  a  "Holmes  Number,"  and,  in  addition  to  the  editorial 


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article  (by  Miss  Gilder),*  contained  letters  from  Matthew  Arnold, 
Louisa  M.  Alcott,  William  F.  Allen,  Charles  Barnard,  Cyrus  A. 
Bartol,  H.  H.  Boyesen,  Noah  Brooks,  Phillips  Brooks,  Frances 
Brown,  John  Burroughs,  James  Freeman  Clarke,  J.  Esten 
Cooke,  Rose  Terry  Cooke,  Christopher  P.  Cranch,  George 
William  Curtis,  Austin  Dobson,  Mary  Mapes  Dodge,  R.  Ogden 
Doremus,  Samuel  Adams  Drake,  Edward  Eggleston,  George 
P.  Fisher,  John  Fiske,  O.  B.  Frothingham,  H.  H.  Fumess, 
W.  H.  Furness,  Sydney  Howard  Gay,  W.  A.  Hammond,  W.  T. 
Harris,  J.  R.  G.  Hassard,  Juhan  Hawthorne,  John  Hay,  Paul 
H.  Hayne,  Frederic  H.  Hedge,  H.  C.  Lea,  Benson  J.  Lossing, 
Donald  G.  Mitchell,  James  H.  Morse,  Simon  Newcomb,  F.  W. 
Palfrey,  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps,  Henry  C.  Potter,  H.  W.  Shaw 
("Josh  Billings"), E.  C.  Stedman,  Frank  R.Stockton,  Harriet 
Beecher  Stowe,  Maurice  Thompson,  J.  T.  Trowbridge,  Moses 
Coit  Tyler,  Francis  A.  Walker,  George  E.  Waring,  Jr.,  Charles 
Dudley  Warner,  Andrew  D.  White,  J.  G.  Whittier,  Alex  Win- 
chell,  C.  A.  Young.  Also  poems  by  C.  de  K.,  Julia  C.  R.  Dorr, 
R.  W.  Gilder,  Edmimd  Gosse,  Edward  Everett  Hale,  Bret  Harte» 
Lord  Houghton,  Frederick  Locker,  Alice  WeUington  Rollins, 
and  Edith  M.  Thomas. 

Dr.  Holmes's  "Last  Leaf." 

Literary  World,  Nov.  28,  1885,  vol.  16,  p.  429. 

Dr.  Haweis  on  Dr.  Holmes. 

Critic,  Jan.  23,  1886,  vol.  8,  pp.  46-47  (from  the  Pall  Mall 
Gazette). 

Dr.  Holmes's  New  Novel  [Review  of  A  Mortal  Anti- 
pathy]. 
Literary  World,  Jan.  23,  1886,  vol.  17,  p.  23. 
Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

British  Medical  Journal,  April  10,  1886,  vol.  1  of  that  year, 
p.  707. 
The  American  Montaigne. 

Spectator,  May  15,  1886,  vol.  59,  pp.  650-651. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

British  Medical  Journal,  June  12  and  June  26,  1886,  vol.  1 
of  that  year,  pp.  1121  and  1223. 

*  Including  a  facsimile  of  a  letter  from  Dr.  Holmes. 


[Dr.  Holmes  at  Oxford.] 

Christian  Union,  June  24,  1886,  vol.  33,  p.  3. 

Dr.  Holmes  in  England. 

Literary  World,  June  26, 1886,  vol.  17,  p.  216. 

Dr.  Holmes  in  England. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  June  30, 1886,  vol.  114, 
p.  626. 

Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (Phcebo  ante  alios  dilectus). 
Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Sept.  2, 1886,  vol.  115, 
p.  217. 

Portraits  and   Biographical  Sketches   of  Twenty 
American  Authors.     Boston,  1887. 

Riverside  Literature  Series,  B.    Holmes,  no.  9  (unpaged). 

Recreations  of  the  Rabelais  Club,  1885-1888.     [For 
private  circulation  only.    100  copies  printed.] 

Li  this  third  series  of  the  "Recreations,"  10  lines  from  "The 
Old  Player"  are  printed,  followed  by  a  translation  into  Latin 
by  S[amuel]  L[ee];  the  Latin  version  is  then  put  into  Greek  by 
A.  S.,  and  that  into  English  by  A[ndrew]  L[ang].  Mr.  Lang's 
English  version  is  then  done  into  French  by  W[alter]  H[erries] 
P[ollock];  the  French  version  into  Italian  by  S.  G.  C.  M[iddle- 
mere],  and  that  back  into  English  once  more  by  Mr.  Pollock. 

Mr.  Lang's  and  Mr.  Pollock's  English  versions  are  given 
below,  together  with  the  original  passage. 

Dr.  Holmes 

Call  him  not  old,  whose  visionary  brain 
Holds  o'er  the  past  its  imdivided  reign. 
For  him  in  vain  the  envious  seasons  roll 
Who  bears  eternal  summer  in  his  soul. 
If  yet  the  minstrel's  song,  the  poet's  lay. 
Spring  with  her  birds,  or  children  at  their  play. 
Or  maiden's  smile,  or  heavenly  dream  of  art. 
Stir  the  few  life-drops  creeping  round  his  heart, 
Turn  to  the  record  where  his  years  are  told,  — 
Count  his  gray  hairs,  —  they  cannot  make  him  old. 


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Mr.  Lang 

Call  him  not  old  whose  kindly  breast 
Retains  the  glow  of  seasons  dead, 
Within  whose  heart  is  summer  blest 
Despite  the  cruel  winters  fled; 
While  jet  the  minstrel  brings  delight 
To  such  a  soul  with  piercing  song, 
TMiile  laughing  girls  and  all  things  bright 
Of  mortal  art  can  please  him  long  — 
Ah,  though  the  warm  heart-drops  be  rare. 
He  yet  is  young,  as  he  hath  been, 
Beneath  whose  crown  of  silver  hair 
Life  and  the  love  of  life  are  green. 

Mr.  Pollock 
Say  not  that  he  is  old.    His  heart 
Is  lord  of  bygone  time. 
Winter  in  vain  with  envious  smart 
Puts  rime  against  his  rhyme. 
His  soul  is  summer.    While  the  laugh  of  birds, 
Or  happy  girls,  or  children,  makes  him  young. 
While  he  can  think  such  thoughts,  can  write  such  words. 
Can  sing  again  such  songs  as  he  has  sung, 
**  Stone  walls  do  not  a  prison  make,  nor  iron  bars  a  cage," 
Nor  whitening  hairs  do  not  reveal  his  age. 

Dr.  Holmes  in  his  Library. 

Book-Buyer,  Jime,  1888,  n.  s.  vol.  5,  pp.  174-175. 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems  [Review]. 
Spectator,  June  23,  1888,  vol.  61,  pp.  855-856. 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems  [Review]. 
Athenaeum,  June  28, 1888,  no.  3165,  pp.  787-788. 

Dr.  Holmes's  Eightieth  Birthday. 
Critic,  Sept.  7,  1889,  vol.  15,  p.  115. 

Dr.  Holmes's  Religious  Poems. 

New  England  Magazine,  Oct.,  1889,  vol.  1,  pp.  124-125. 

Dr.  Holmes  at  Beverly  Farms. 

Critic,  Sept.  20,  1890,  vol.  17,  pp.  147-148  (from  the  Boston 
Daily  Advertiser). 


Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Blackwood's  Magazine,  Aug.,  1892,  vol.  152,  pp.  194-207. 
The  Writings  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  [Review 
of  Riverside  Edition]. 

Spectator,  Sept.  17, 1892,  vol.  69,  pp.  387-388. 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Proceedings  of,  on 
the  Death  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Proceedings,  etc.,  Oct.  11, 1894,  2d  series,  vol.  9,  pp.  159-168. 
Remarks  of  Greorge  E.  EUis. 
Poem  of  William  Everett. 
Letter  from  Hon.  E.  R.  Hoar. 
Remarks  of  Henry  Lee. 
Remarks  of  Hon.  Greorge  F.  Hoar. 
Remarks  of  Charies  W.  Eliot. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  11, 1894,  vol.  131, 
pp.  375-376. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Outlook,  Oct.  13, 1894,  vol.  50,  pp.  578-579. 

Db.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Athenaeum,  Oct.  13,  1894,  no.  3494,  pp.  492-493. 
Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Critic,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  25,  p.  242. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Saturday  Review,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  78,  pp.  406-407. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Spectator,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  73,  pp.  485-487. 

Littell's  Living  Age,  Nov.  24, 1894,  vol.  203,  pp.  503-506. 

[Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.] 

Lancet  (London),  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  2  of  that  year,  pp.  862- 
863  and  882-883. 

The  first  is  an  editorial  article  upon  Dr.  Holmes,  and  the 
second  an  "obituary." 
[Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.] 

British  Medical  Journal,  Oct.  13,  1894,  vol.  2  of  that  year, 
pp.  839-841. 


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Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Dial,  Oct.  16, 1894,  vol.  17,  pp.  215-217. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Public  Opinion,  Oct.  18,  1894,  vol.  17,  p.  707. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Literary  World,  Oct.  20,  1894,  vol.  25,  p.  350. 

Medical  Tributes  to  Dr.  Holmes. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Oct.  25,1894,  vol.  131, 
pp.  423-425. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Writer,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  7,  pp.  161-167,  183. 
Personal  tributes  to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Hobnes,  written  at 
the  request  of  the  editor  of  the  Writer,  by  F.  B.  Sanborn 
(poem),  Charies  Dudley  Warner,  Edward  Eggleston,  H.  H. 
Boyesen,  C.  A.  Bartol,  George  W.  Cable,  S.  F.  Smith,  Julia 
C.  K.  Dorr  (sonnet),  Donald  G.  Mitchell,  William  H.  Hayne, 
Richard  Burton,  Arlo  Bates,  J.  T.  Trowbridge,  Thomas  Nel- 
son Page,  Elizabeth  Stuart  Phelps  Ward,  Joaquin  Miller,  and 
others.  On  p.  168  of  the  same  number  is  an  editorial  article 
on  Dr.  H.,  and  on  p.  169  a  letter  from  Rev.  Edward  E.  Hale, 
inclosing  a  copy  of  a  letter  from  Dr.  H.  to  himself,  dated 
Dec.  7,  1869. 

[Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.] 

Book  News,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  13,  pp.  70-72;  with  portrait, 
quotations  from  the  New  York  Sun,  and  from  certain  articles 
in  the  Holmes  number  of  the  Critic. 

The  Last  Leaf  [Review  of  Holiday  Edition]. 
Outlook,  Dec.  1,  1894,  vol.  50,  p.  916. 

Holmes    Memorial    Meeting    of    Boston    Medical 
Library  Association,  Tuesday,  Oct.  30,  1894. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  Dec.  13, 1894,  vol.  131, 
pp.  584-590. 

[Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.] 

Newsletter,  Osterhout  Library,  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  Dec,  1894. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  [Review  of  Riverside  Edition 
of  his  Works]. 


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Quarterly  Review,  Jan.,  1895,  vol.  180,  pp.  189-206. 
Littell's  Living  Age,  March  2, 1895,  vol.  204,  pp.  537-549. 
Eclectic  Magazine,  April,  1895,  vol.  124,  pp.  433-444. 
Mr.  Morse  refers  more  than  once  to  this  article  as  a  most 
judicious  and  discriminating  one. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.    1809-1894. 

Bulletin  of  Providence  [R.  I.]  Public  Library,  Jan.,  1895,  vol.  1, 
pp.  3-4. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  on  Immortalttt. 
Spectator,  May  16, 1896,  vol.  76,  pp.  699-700. 

Dr.  Holmes  —  Sic  Sedebat  [Review  of  Morse's  Life  and 
Letters  of  Dr.  Holmes]. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  June,  1896,  vol.  77,  pp.  830-837. 
[Review  of  Morse's  Life  and  Letters.] 

Book  News,  June,  1896,  vol.  14,  pp.  477-478  (from  the  New 
York  Times). 

Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes    [Re- 
view of  Morse's  Life  and  Letters,  and  Jerrold's  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes]. 
Quarterly  Review,  Oct.,  1896,  vol.  87,  pp.  77-94. 


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IV 

POEMS 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey.   The  Sailing  of  the  Autocrat. 
On  Board  the  S.  S.  Cephalonia,  April  26,  1886. 
The  Sisters'  Tragedy,  with  Other  Poems,  1891. 
The  last  line  reads 

"His  absence  will  be  shadow  here." 
After  the  death  of  Dr.  Holmes  the  following  lines  were  added 
to  the  poem,  beneath  the  words  "October  7,  1894,"  and  have 
always  since  been  printed  with  them:  — 

"  *  BGs  absence  will  be  shadow  here '  — 
A  deeper  shadow  than  I  meant 
Has  fallen  on  the  waning  year 
And  with  my  lightsome  verses  blent. 
Another  voyage  was  to  be!  — 
The  ship  that  bears  him  now  from  shore. 
To  plough  an  miknown,  chartless  sea. 
Shall  bring  him  back  to  us  no  more !  " 

Anonymous.  Sweet  Holmes !  [Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
has  resigned  the  Chair  of  Anatomy  at  Harvard  Univer- 
sity.] 

Punch,  Dec.  9,  1882,  vol.  82,  p.  274. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Joiu*nal,  Jan.  25, 1883,  vol.  108, 
p.  86. 

Your  health,  dear  "Autocrat!  "  All  England  owns 
Your  instrument 's  the  lyre,  and  not  "the  Bones." 
Yet  hear  our  wishes  —  trust  us  they  're  not  cold  ones! 
That  though  you  give  up  bones,  you  may  make  old  ones. 

Anonymous.  Lyrics  in  a  Library,  ii.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes. 

Punch,  April  10,  1886,  vol.  89,  p.  178. 

O  Thou,  whose  wisdom  and  whose  wit, 
Whose  fancy  and  whose  fable, 


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Have  won  two  hemispheres  to  sit 

Around  thy  breakfast  table, 
Our  old-world  notions  never  find 

A  more  indulgent  critic, 
Though  your  sharp  scalpel  lurks  behind 

Your  verdicts  analytic. 

In  Elia's  hand  the  essay  writ 

With  admirable  fancy 
A  thousand  prosy  subjects  lit 

With  potent  necromancy. 
So  now  across  the  Western  seas, 

Atlantic  billows  tost  on, 
There  comes,  in  precious  books  Kke  these, 

A  Lamb  "designed  of  Boston." 

I  never  crossed  from  this  old  shore 

Atlantic  ocean  ridges, 
I  never  heard  the  Charies  downpour 

Through  all  the  Boston  bridges; 
And  yet,  I  seem  to  know  your  home. 

The  "Hub,"  the  Boston  people; 
To  see  the  State  House  with  its  dome. 

Hear  chimes  from  Christchurch  steeple. 

For  I  have  pondered  o'er  each  page, 

Till  half  by  heart  I  know  it. 
Of  keen  "Professor,**  kind  and  sage. 

Of  tender-hearted  "Poet;  ** 
Before  the  "Autocrat**  I  see 

In  vain  his  foemen  flounder. 
Like  Don  Diego  Perez,  he, 

A  veritable  "pounder." 

One  idyl  to  my  heart  of  hearts. 

Professor,  you  have  granted. 
Though  scarce  susceptible  to  darts 

By  Aphrodite  planted. 
In  Dreamland  Iris  still  I  woo; 

It  raises  up  my  dander, 
To  think  she  married  even  you, 

A  happy  Marylander! 


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So  trust  me,  Doctor,  writing  here. 

Afar  'mid  English  daisies, 
Howe*er  unkempt  my  rhymes  appear. 

That  honest  are  my  praises. 
I  cry  "Peccavi!"  if  you  care 

With  my  poor  verse  to  quarrel. 
Yet  Punch  may  ask  you  *11  deign  to  wear 

This  leaf  of  English  Laurel. 

Anonymous.     "  The  Autocrat."     Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Bom    1809.    Died  October  7,  1894. 
Punch,  Oct.  20,  1894,  vol.  106,  p.  191. 

Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (Morse),  vol.  ii, 
pp.  96-97. 

The  Last  Leaf!     Can  it  be  true. 
We  have  turned  it,  and  on  you. 

Friend  of  all  ? 
That  the  years  at  last  have  power  ? 
That  life's  foliage  and  its  flower 

Fade  and  fall? 

Was  there  ever  one  who  took 
From  its  shelf,  by  chance,  a  book. 

Penned  by  you. 
But  was  fast  your  friend  for  life. 
With  one  refuge  from  its  strife 

Safe  and  true  .'* 

Even  gentle  Elia's  self 

Might  be  proud  to  share  that  shelf. 

Leaf  to  leaf. 
With  a  soul  of  kindred  sort. 
Who  could  bind  strong  sense  and  sport 

Li  one  sheaf. 

From  that  Boston  breakfast-table. 
Wit  and  wisdom,  fun  and  fable. 

Radiated 
Through  all  English-speaking  places. 
When  were  Science  and  the  Graces 

So  well  mated  ? 


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Of  sweet  singers  the  most  sane, 
Of  keen  wits  the  most  hmnane. 

Wide,  yet  clear. 
Like  the  blue,  above  us  bent, 
Giving  sense  and  sentiment 

Each  its  sphere; 

With  a  manly  breadth  of  soul. 
And  a  fancy  quaint  and  droll, 

Ripe  and  mellow; 
With  a  virile  power  of  "hit,**- 
Finished  scholar,  poet,  wit. 

And  good  fellow! 

Sturdy  patriot,  and  yet 
True  world's  citizen!   Regret 

Dims  our  eyes 
As  we  turn  each  well-thumbed  leaf; 
Yet  a  glory  'midst  our  grief 

Will  arise. 

Years  your  spirit  could  not  tame. 
And  they  will  not  dim  your  fame; 

England  joys 
In  your  songs,  all  strength  and  ease. 
And  the  "dreams"  you  "wrote  to  please 

Gray-haired  boys." 

And  of  such  were  you  not  one  ? 
Age  chilled  not  your  fire  of  fim. 

Heart  aUve 
Makes  a  boy  of  a  gray  bard. 
Though  his  years  be,  "by  the  card," 

Eighty-five! 

[BiGELOw,  Jacob.]    To  a  Tadpole.  By  O.  W.  H. 

Eolopesis:  American  Rejected  Addresses,  now  first  published 
from  the  original  manuscripts,  1855. 

The  poems  in  this  volume,  which  was  published  anonymously, 
are  parodies,  not  uniformly  successful,  of  the  work  of  various  con- 
temporary poets.   The  relations   between  the  author  and  Dr. 


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Holmes  were  exceedingly  intimate.  The  first  two  and  last  three 
of  the  thirty-nine  stanzas  of  "To  a  Tadpole"  are  here  repro- 
duced. 

Thou  nimble,  polymorphous  thing, 

With  limbs  within  thee  bound. 
Depending  on  thy  caudal  fin 
To  scull  thy  body  round, 

I  fain  thy  character  would  read. 

From  signs  that  thus  prevail, 
And  swear  thou  hast  a  waggish  head 

On  such  a  waggish  tail. 


And  though  my  hairs  are  getting  thin 

And  thy  short  tail  is  shorter. 
We  '11  struggle  yet  a  while  to  keep 

Our  heads  above  the  water. 

And  we  will  sing  a  brave  duet 

On  life's  eventful  dream. 
And  I  will  make  the  poetry 

And  thou  shalt  make  the  theme. 

And  when  this  planet  shall  explode, 

And  send  us  through  the  air. 
They  '11  find  our  bones  in  future  rocks, 

And  wonder  what  they  were. 

Clark,  George  H.    A  Berkshire  Breeze. 

Knickerbocker  Magazine,  April,  1856,  vol.  47,  pp.  336-340. 

Clarke,  James  Freeman. 

Life  and  Letters  of  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  (Morse),  1896, 
vol.  ii,  pp.  104-105. 

These  stanzas  were  addressed  to  Dr.  Holmes  on  the  eve  of  his 
departure  for  Europe  in  April,  1886,  and  were  acknowledged  by 
him  in  a  note  (printed  by  Mr.  Morse)  in  which  he  asks  Mr. 
Clarke  to  "print  these  dear  lines  as  my  envoi.*' 

May  all  good  thoughts  go  with  thee  from  this  shore, 
All  kindly  greetings  meet  thee  on  the  other; 
Bring  all  they  can  they  will  not  give  thee  more 
Than  we  send  with  thee.  Poet,  Friend,  and  Brother. 


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While  thou  art  absent  we  will  say  "How  often 

The  gloom  from  off  our  hearts  his  smile  has  lifted; 

How  well  he  knew  our  harder  mood  to  soften, 

With  gleams  of  sunhght  where  the  storm  clouds  drifted! 

"And  how,  when  that  o'erwhelming  weight  of  duty 
Pressed  upon  Lincoln's  weary  hand  and  brain. 
Our  Holmes's  song  of  tenderness  and  beauty 
Gave  that  worn  heart  a  moment's  rest  again! 

"Go,  then,  dear  friend,  by  all  good  hopes  attended; 
To  mother-England  go,  our  carrier-dove. 
Saying  that  this  great  race,  from  hers  descended, 
S6nds  in  its  Holmes  an  Easter-gift  of  love." 

Cone,  Helen  Gray. 

Critic,  Oct.  13, 1894,  vol.  25,  pp.  243-244. 

Cranch,  Christopher  Pearse.  To  Oliver  W^endell 
Holmes,  ^t.  70.  Read  at  the  Atlantic  Breakfast,  Dec.  3, 
1879. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  p.  17  (without 
title). 

Ariel  and  Cahban,  with  Other  Poems,  1887,  p.  169. 

A  fountain  in  our  green  New  England  hills 
Sent  forth  a  brook,  whose  music  as  I  stood 
To  hsten,  laughed  and  sang  through  field  and  wood. 

With  mingled  melodies  of  joyous  rills. 

Now,  following  where  they  led,  a  river  fills 
Its  channels  with  a  wide,  calm,  shining  flood. 
Still  murmuring  on  its  banks,  with  changeful  mood. 

So,  Poet,  sound  thy  stops  of  various  quills. 

Where  waves  of  song,  wit,  wisdom,  charm  our  ears 
As  in  thy  youth,  and  thoughts  and  smiles  by  turns 
Are  ours,  grave,  gay,  or  tender.    Time  forgets 

To  freeze  thy  deepening  stream.    The  stealthy  years 
But  bribe  the  Muse  to  bring  thee  amulets 
That  guard  the  soul  whose  fire  of  youth  still  bums. 

De  K[ay],  Charles.    To  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  100. 


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Dorr,  Julia  C.  R.    O.  W.  H. 

Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  100. 

[Sonnet.] 
Writer,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  7,  p.  163. 

Everett,  William. 

Proceedings  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Oct.  11, 
1894,  2d  series,  vol.  9,  pp.  161-162. 
One  poet  more,  transferred  to  Homer's  train; 
One  healer  more,  removed  to  Galen's  side; 
One  more  gold  link  upon  our  heroes'  chain,  — 
One  friend  the  less,  who  never  should  have  died. 

Friend,  patriot,  healer,  poet,  wit,  and  sage,  — 

How  hard,  how  strange,  to  count  him  with  the  past! 

We  heard  his  gentle  jests  on  time  and  age. 

Nor  dreamed  such  foes  could  win  the  fight  at  last. 

Who  for  that  grave  may  twine  a  fitting  crown. 
Where  memory's  pansy  blends  with  glory's  bay  ? 

Whose  pen  like  his,  for  ever  now  laid  down. 
Tender  to  feel,  and  Kvely  to  portray  ? 

Yet,  while  from  yonder  tower  he  loved  so  long 
Still  chime  the  echoes  of  his  funeral  psalm, 

Let  not  the  master  lack  one  modest  song. 
Till  bolder  hands  shall  plant  some  statelier  palm. 

No  single  flower  that  garland  can  supply, 
Such  vast  and  varied  springs  his  genius  held, 

Whence  through  a  score  of  channels,  never  dry. 
Fresh,  deep,  and  pure,  their  shining  currents  welled. 

Sprung  from  New  England's  chiefs  and  saints  of  yore. 

His  heart  was  rooted  to  her  soil  alone. 
Nor  siren  charms  from  lands  the  ocean  o'er 

E'er  shook  his  proud  allegiance  to  his  own. 

Bom  where  our  ancient  college  throws  her  shade. 
He  served,  he  loved  her,  student  to  the  last; 

While  o'er  her  sons  in  festive  ranks  arrayed 
His  genial  Muse  unfailing  fragrance  cast. 


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In  love  he  practised,  and  in  patience  taught, 
The  sacred  art  that  battles  with  disease; 

Nor  stained,  by  one  disloyal  act  or  thought. 
The  holy  symbol  of  Hippocrates. 

His  lyre  through  every  mood  of  music  rang, 
The  banquet's  carol,  and  the  battle's  hymn; 

Now  warbling  like  a  child  at  play,  it  sang, 
Now  soared  to  echoes  of  the  seraphim. 

Lustrous  and  leaping,  like  the  Boreal  dawn. 
His  wit  o'er  every  theme  ranged  imconfined; 

Flashed  like  a  rapier's  point  in  combat  drawn. 
But  drew  no  blood,  and  left  no  sore  behind. 

Wide  as  our  country,  wide  as  England's  tongue. 
Flew  his  bright  name,  itself  a  household  word; 

How  frankly  proud  to  all  those  wreaths  he  clung. 
How  kindly  caught  each  breath  of  praise  he  heard! 

Dear  were  those  plaudit  notes;  but  dearer  far 
One  treasure,  prized  o'er  all  that  high  renown. 

Friendship's  gemmed  circlet,  every  friend  a  star. 
Outshining  victor's  helm  or  empire's  crown. 

So  lived,  so  sang,  so  talked  he;  youth's  gay  beam. 
Manhood's  hot  splendor,  age's  milder  glow. 

Each  in  its  turn  might  fairest  radiance  seem. 
As  year  by  year  we  watched  them  shine  and  go. 

Threescore  and  ten  with  gentle  footstep  came. 
Nor  labor  pressed,  nor  sorrow,  at  fourscore; 

One  lustre  more ;  then  rang  his  summoned  name 
In  softest  music  through  Elysium's  door. 

His  bright  task  WTOUght,  his  meed  of  glory  won, 
His  country  honored,  and  his  kind  improved : 

Room  there  is  none  for  tears;  yet  tears  will  run. 
For  bard,  for  master,  and  for  friend  removed. 


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Gilder,  Richard  Watson.    August  29,  1809. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  102. 

God  bless  the  day!   But  lie  hath  blest 
(And  all  the  grateful  world  doth  know  it). 

That  happy  day,  when,  in  the  West, 
Was  born  the  wise  and  witty  poet  — 

The  poet  who  first  to  Science  sought,       * 

And  to  the  merry  muses  after; 
Who  learned  what  in  no  school  is  taught  — 

The  secret  of  men's  tears  and  laughter. 

Be  it,  O  Time,  a  weary  while. 

Ere,  in  the  land  where  spirits  meet  us, 

A  shade  shall  say  (with  Shakespeare's  smile), 
"There  comes  the  Autocrat  to  greet  us." 

GossE,  Edmund.  An  Epistle  to  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
on  his  Seventy-Fifth  Birthday,  August  29,  1884. 

Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  102. 
Athenaeum,  Aug.  30,  1884,  no.  2966,  p.  274. 
This  poem  was  also  printed  separately  by  Mr.  Gosse,  in  a 
very  limited  edition. 

Hale,  Edward  Everett.  Of  the  Chief  —  and  To  Him. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  103. 

Harte,  Bret.    Our  Laureate. 

Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  103. 
One  day,  from  groves  of  pine  and  palm. 

The  poets  of  the  sky  and  cover 
Had  come  to  greet  with  song  and  psalm 

The  whip-poor-will,  —  their  woodland  lover. 
All  sang  their  best,  but  one  clear  note 

That  fairly  voiced  their  admiration 
Was  his  —  who  only  sang  by  rote  — 

The  mock-bird's  modest  imitation. 

So  we,  who  'd  praise  the  bard  who  most 

Is  poet  of  each  high  occasion. 
Who  'd  laud  our  laureate,  and  toast 

The  blithe  Toast-Master  of  the  Nation,  — 


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To  celebrate  his  fete  to-day. 

In  vain  each  bard  his  praise  rehearses. 

The  best  that  we  can  sing  or  say 
Is  but  an  echo  of  his  verses. 

Hettland,  W.  E.  Lines  of  Greeting  to  Dr.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes  at  Breakfast  in  Combination  Room,  St.  John's 
College,  Cambridge  [England]. 
Academy,  July  3,  1886,  vol.  30,  p.  9. 
Houghton,  Lord.    To  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  104. 

Howe,  Julia  Ward.  Lines  read  at  the  Holmes  Breakfast, 
Dec.  3,  1879. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  7-8. 
Jackson,  Helen  Hunt  [H.  H.].  To  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 
on  his  Seventy-Fifth  Birthday.    Read  (by  Mr.  Wamer) 
at  the  Atlantic  Breakfast,  Dec.  3,  1879. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  9-10. 
James,  Bushrod  W.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

Arena,  Dec,  1894,  vol.  11,  p.  55. 
Larcom,  Lucy.    O.  W.  H.    August  29,  1879. 

Wild  Roses  of  Cape  Ann,  1880. 
Locker,  Frederick.    Dr.  Oliver  W.  Holmes. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  104. 

From  Boston  Town  they  write  to  say 
Their  bard  is  seventy-five  to-day. 

And  all  the  world  must  know  it; 
But  while  to  him  this  stave  I  twine 
I  wish  his  birthday  could  be  mine. 
And  he  could  be  my  poet. 

Lowell,  James  Russell.  A  Fable  for  Critics. 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  vol.  iii,  pp.  84-85. 
.     To  Holmes  on  his  Seventy-Fifth  Birthday. 

Critic,  Sept.  20,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  133. 

Heartsease  and  Rue,  1888. 
Mitchell,  Silas  Weir.    Verses  read  on  presentation  of 


[  285  ] 

Mrs.  Whitman's  portrait  of  Dr.  fiolmes  to  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  April  30,  1892. 

Boston  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,  May  5,  1892,  vol.  126, 
pp.  450-451. 

Collected  Poems,  1896,  p.  344. 

Roberts,  Charles  G.  D.    Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.   Obiit 
October  7,  1894. 
Dial,  Oct.  1,  1895,  vol.  19,  p.  169. 

Rollins,  Alice  Wellington.   The  Silent  Tribute. 
Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  106. 

Sanborn,  Franklin  B.    Dr.  Holmes. 
Writer,  Nov.,  1894,  vol.  7,  p.  161. 

Poet  and  Wit!  with  heartiest  love  for  man. 

Narrowed  at  first  in  range,  —  but  wider  flowing 
When  lengthened  life  unfolded  all  her  plain. 
And  on  his  brow  mild  age  was  softly  snowing. 

Smith,  Samuel  F.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.  In  Memoriam. 
Poems  of  Home  and  Country,  1895,  pp.  109-110. 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence.  Read  at  the  Atlantic  Break- 
fast, .Dec  3,  1879. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  13-14. 

Thomas,  Edith  M.    To  Dr.  Holmes  on  his  Seventy-Fifth 
Birthday.  ' 

Critic,  Aug.  30,  1884,  n.  s.  vol.  2,  p.  106. 

Trowbridge,  John  Townsend.    Filling  an  Order.    Read 
at  the  Atlantic  Breakfast,  Dec.  8,  1879. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  15-16. 
A  Home  Idyl,  and  Other  Poems,  1881. 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.    Our  Autocrat.     Read  at 
the  Atlantic  Breakfast,  Dec.  3,  1879. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  5-6. 

.    To  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  on  his  Eightieth  Birth- 
day. 
Poems,  Riverside  Edition,  vol.  iv,  p.  302. 


[  286  ] 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf.  To  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 
8th  mo,  29th,  1892. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  Sept.,  1892,  vol.  70,  pp.  401-402. 
This  was  the  last  poem  written  by  Whittier. 

Winter,  William.  The  Chieftain.  Read  at  the  Atlantic 
Breakfast,  Dec.  3,  1879. 

Atlantic  Monthly,  Feb.,  1880,  vol.  45,  supp.  pp.  14-15. 

Mr.  WintCx  gave  his  poem  the  title,  "Hearts  and  Holmes," 
for  the  occasion,  but  requested  that  it  be  printed  as  "The  Chief- 
tain." 


RECORD  OF  SALES  AT  AUCTION 

The  following  records  are  taken,  necessarily,  from  the  publica- 
tion called  Book-Prices  Current,  which  Mr.  Luther  S.  Livingston 
has  compiled  for  the  past  twelve  or  thirteen  years.  The  volumes 
included  in  the  record  are  arranged  as  in  the  second  division  of 
the  bibliography  —  chronologically.  At  the  end  will  be  found 
some  few  memoranda  of  sales  of  manuscripts,  taken  from  the 
same  source,  and  arranged  according  to  the  dates  of  sale.  Sales 
of  single  works  included  in  the  first  section  of  the  bibliography 
are  noted  in  connection  with  those  works.  The  compiler  is  much 
indebted  to  Mr.  Livingston  for  supplying  him  with  notes  of  sales 
for  the  year  1905-06,  before  the  volume  of  Book-Prices  Current  for 
that  year  had  appeared.  The  word  "sale  "after  a  name  indi- 
cates that  the  name  is  that  of  the  owner  of  the  volume  sold; 
names  standing  alone  are  those  of  the  auctioneers,  and  indicate 
that  the  owner's  name  was  not  disclosed. 

The  Harbinger 

Foote  sale,  1894,  levant  $15.00 

Bangs,  April  1897  14.00 

Libbie,  June  1897  3.50 

Libbie,  Sept.  1897  4.50 

Bangs,  Jan.  1898  4.50 

Deane  sale,  1898;  presentation  copy  7.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898  *                                    3.00 

Bangs,  March  1899;    autograph  letter  inserted  6.25 

Roos  sale,  1900  12.00 

Daly  sale,  1900  12.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901  21.00 

Brown  Duplicate  sale,  1901  19.50 

French  sale,  1901  18.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1901  6.50 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  11.00 

McKee  sale,  1902  29.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant  29.00 


[  288.'] 

Libbie,  June  1904  (imperfect)  $4.50 

Anderson,  Oct.  1904  10.00 

Libbie,  March  1905  8.00 

Anderson,  April  1905  12.00 

Anderson,  June  1905  4.25 

Libbie,  Nov.  1905  8.00 

Denny  sale,  1906  17.00 

Merwin-Clayton,  Feb.  1906  9.50 

Pyser  sale,  1906  9.50 

Poems,  1836 

Foote  sale,  1894,  J  mor.;    8  lines  of  one  poem  in 

author's  autograph  20.00 

Libbie,  Jan.  1895  6.05 

Bangs,  April  1895  8.00 

Bangs,  April  1895  8.20 

Libbie,  Feb.  1897  5.55 

Bangs,  April  1897;  orig.  cloth,  uncut  16.00 

Bangs,  May  1897;   orig.  cloth,  uncut  9.00 

Blanchard  sale,  1898  10.20 

Bangs,  March  1899;  autograph  letter  inserted  7.50 

Roos  sale,  1900  12.50 

Mackay  sale,  1900  8.00 

McKee'  sale,  1900  14.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901  23.00 

Bangs,  Feb.  1901  17.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1901  4.25 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902;  autograph  letter  inserted  21.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant  20.00 

Anderson,  April  1903  12.00 

Bartlett  sale,  1903  15.00 

French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904  6.00 

Libbie,  March  1904  7.00 

Stephens  sale,  1904  4.25 

Anderson,  May  1904,  levant  10.00 

Anderson,  Oct.  1904;    autograph  of  J.  S.  Dwight          14.00 

Anderson,  Jan.  1905,  levant  15.00 

Knapp  sale,  1905  4.75 

Merwin-Clayton,  March  1905  4.50 

Anderson,  March  1905,  levant  21.00 

Libbie,  March  1905;  with  author's  autograph  3.50 


[289] 

Anderson,  Dec.  1905  $6.10 

Merwin-Clayton,  Feb.  1906  17.00 

Merwin-Clayton,  March  1906  5.00 

Anderson,  April  1906  10.10 

Barry  sale,  1906,  morocco  9.80 

Merwin-Clayton,  May  1906                    *  4.25 

Pyser  sale,  1906  11.00 

Poems,  1846  (London) 

Foote  sale,  1894,  mor. ;  4  lines  in  author's  autograph      20.00 

Bangs,  April  1896  8.25 

Bangs,  Nov.  1896  17.50 

libbie,  April  1897  5.50 

Deane  sale,  1898  8.25 

McKee  sale,  1900  7.00 
Arnold  sale,  1901;  presentation  copy  to  Dr.  Morton, 

with  autograph  of  O.  W.  H.  47.00 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902  5.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant  12.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  (rebacked)  1.75 

Urania:  A  Rhymed  Lesson 

Foote  sale,  1894  6.50 

Libbie,  March  1896  4.50 

Libbie,  June  1896;  autograph  note  inserted  6.00 

Bangs,  April  1897  5.00 

Bangs,  May  1898;  presentation  copy  4.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898;  presentation  copy  4.50 

Bangs,  June  1899;  presentation  copy  8.00 

Roos  sale,  1900  8.00 

McKee  sale,  1900  2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901  5.00 
French  sale,  1901,  levant;  autograph  letter  inserted        40.00 

Bangs,  May  1901  3.60 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  6.50 

Libbie,  Nov.  1904;  presentation  copy  8.10 

Bangs  sale,  1905;  presentation  copy  4.25 

Wheeler  sale,  1905  SJt5 

Anderson,  Jan.  1906  8.40 

Brandon  sale,  1906  4.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  2.00 


[  290- ] 

Poems,  1849 :  first  issue 

(The  copies  preceded  by  an  asterisk  are  those  as  to  which  the 
catalogue  stated  that  they  were  of  the  first  issue;  as  to  the  others 
no  statement  was  made.) 

*Foote  sale,  1894,  mor.;  one  stanza  of  "The  Last  Leaf" 


in  author's  autograph 

$20.00 

Libbie,  March  1896 

9.00 

Bangs,  April  1896 

5.50 

Bangs,  April  1897 

7.75 

Libbie,  April  1897 

2.50 

Blanchard  sale,  1898 

4.00 

Libbie,  April  1900 

4.00 

Bangs,  May  1900 

4.13 

*Amold  sale,  1901 

10.50 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901 

3.50 

Anderson,  Oct.  1902 

9.00 

♦Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy 

48.00 

*Anderson,  June  1905 

7.50 

Anderson,  Jan.  1906 

3.75 

*Pyser  sale,  1906  ("very  fine  copy") 

1.50 

Poems,  1849 :  second  issue 

Foote  sale,  1894,  mor.;  autograph  letter  inserted 

10.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  (2  pp.)  inserted 

31.00 

Anderson,  June  1905 ;  autograph  letter  inserted 

6.25 

Pyser  sale,  1906  (imperfect) 

.75 

AsTRiEA:    THE  BaIANCE  OF  TtT.USIONS 

Bangs,  April  1897 

1.50 

McKee  sale,  1900 

1.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

1.50 

Bangs,  Feb.  1901,  levant 

4.00 

Peirce  sale,  1903 

4.00 

Pattee  sale,  1905 

4.50 

Comstock  sale,  1906 

5.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906 

.30 

Poems,  1852  (London) 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

1.75 

Songs  of  the  Class  of  1829 :  edition  of  1868 

Libbie,  Oct.  1896 

4.50 

Libbie,  Dec.  1896 

500 

[291] 

The  Address  of  Mr.  Everett,  and  the  Poem  of 
Dr.  Holmes,  at  the  dinner  to  Prince  Napoleon,  1861 

Foote  sale,  1894  $7.50 

Bangs,  April  1897  6.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901  2.00 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  3.50 
French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;  portrait  inserted,  also 

autograph  letters  of  Everett  and  Holmes  12.50 

Songs  in  Many  Keys 

Bangs,  April  1897  4.25 

Bangs,  April  1897  2.75 

McKee  sale,  1900  2.50 

Arnold  sale,  1901  3.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  36.00 
French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;  presentation  copy       12.00 

Huntington  sale,  1905;  presentation  copy  6.25 

Denny  sale,  1906  8.10 

Pyser  sale,  1906;   presentation  copy  18.00 

Songs  of  Many  Seasons 

Foote  sale,  1894;  autograph  letter  inserted  6.50 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.75 

Pyser  sale,  1906  2.10 

A  Family  Record 

Libbie,  March  1896  6.50 

Libbie,  Sept.  1897  8.50 

Arnold  sale,  1901  21.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906;  autograph  letter  inserted  46.00 

Poems,  Household  Edition,  1877 

Arnold  sale,  1901  .50 

Hurst  sale,  1904;  presentation  copy  6.50 

The  School-Boy 

Libbie,  April  1897  1.50 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.00 
French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;    autograph  letter 

inserted  4.75 

The  Iron  Gate,  and  Other  Poems 

Bangs,  April  1897  1.88 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  15.00 


[  292^ 

Alger  sale,  1905;    presentation  copy,  with  autograph 
inscription:    leaflet,    "In    Memory    of    Fitz-Greene 

Halleck,'*  with  autnor's  autograph  inserted  $43,00 

Poems,  Handy  Volume  Edition,  1881 :  2  vols. 

Pyser  sale,  1906;  presentation  copy  10.50 

Before  the  Curfew,  and  Other  Poems 

Bangs,  April  1897  2.75 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  inserted  6.00 

Bangs,  Feb.  1901,  levant  9.50 

Whipple  sale,  1903  4.50 

French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;  presentation  copy  3.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  3.50 

The  One-Hoss  Shay,  etc.,  1892 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  5.00 
Carey  sale,  1902;   autograph  poem,  signed  and  dated, 

on  fly-leaf  35.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  1.00 

Dorothy  Q.,  etc.,  1893 

Libbie,  April  1895,  large  paper;  autograph  letter  inserted    5.50 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  26.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  1.00 

Poems,  Riverside  Edition:  3  vols. 

Foote  sale,  1894;   autograph  letter  inserted  8.25 

BoYLSTON  Prize  Dissertations 

Libbie,  Dec.  1896  3.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901  2.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  .25 

HOMCEXDPATHY,  AND  ITS  EjNDRED   DeLUSIONS 

Foote  sale,  1894  3.00 

McKee  sale,  1900  3.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  (3  pp.)  inserted  22.00 

Peirce  sale,  1903  4.00 

May  sale,  1903  4.25 

Swan  sale,  1904  3.00 

Knapp  sale,  1905  5.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  3.25 

The  Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever 

Bangs,  Jan.  1897  3.50 

Arnold  sale,  1901  (imperfect)  24.00 


[293] 

Puerperal  Fever  as  a  Private  Pestilence 

Libbie,  April  1897  $3.60 

Blanchard  sale,  1898;  presentation  copy  4.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901  3.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  .50 

The  Position  and   Prospects  of  the   Medical 
Student 
Libbie,  April  1897  2.12 

Bangs,  Sept.  1902  4.75 

An  Introductory  Lecture  at  the  Massachusetts 
Medical  College,  1847 
Libbie,  April  1897  1.00 

Peirce  sale,  1903  4.50 

The    Benefactors  of  the   Medical  School  of 
Harvard  Universtty 
Arnold  sale,  1901;  presentation  copy  to  Dr.  Bigelow         5.50 

Oration  before  the  New  England  Society  in 
New  York,  1855 
Arnold  sale,  1901  3.00 

Valediotory  Address  to  the  Medical  Graduates 
of  Harvard  University,  1858 
Libbie,  April  1897  1.60 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.25 

Pyser  sale,  1906  .40 

The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table  :  first  edi- 
tion, first  issue  (with  engraved  half-title) 

Foote  sale,  1894,  mor.;  autograph  letter  inserted  25.00 

Bangs,  May  1895  18.00 

Libbie,  Jan.  1896  3.00 

Bangs,  March  1896  6.50 

Libbie,  March  1896  5.25 

Bangs,  April  1897  4.00 

Libbie,  April  1897  8.50 

Libbie,  May  1897  4.50 

Blanchard  sale,  1898  4.50 

Camith  sale,  1898  5.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898;  autograph  letter  inserted  3.50 
Bangs,  April  1899;  autograph  letter  inserted  (imperfect)    3.00 

Bangs,  Oct.  1899  3.50 


[  294  ] 

Roos  sale,  1900  $4.00 

Mackay  sale,  1900  4.00 

Bangs,  May  1900,  ^  levant  9.00 

McKee  sale,  1900  5.00 
Arnold  sale,  1901;    autograph  of  one  stanza  of  "The 

Chambered  Nautilus,"  dated  1892  35.00 

Bangs,  March  1901  4.75 

Libbie,  April  1901  6.37 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  11.00 

Bangs,  March  1902,  i  levant  6.50 

Morgan  sale,  1902  14.50 

Bangs,  Nov.  1902;  autograph  letter  inserted  7.00 

May  sale,  1903  3.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant  40.00 

Bartlett  sale,  1903  3.25 

Peirce  sale,  1903                             ^  8.00 

Drowne  sale,  1903                          "  8.00 

French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904  6.00 

Anderson,  Oct.  1904  4.50 

Anderson,  Dec.  1904 ;  autograph  letter  inserted  12.25 

Mensdn-Clayton,  March  1905  7.00 

Poole  sale,  1905  4.50 

Anderson,  June  1905  3.50 

Han^ey  sale,  1906  5.60 

Anderson,  Jan.  1906  3.75 

Davis  sale,  1906  3.50 

Searing  sale,  1906  4.50 

Burnett  sale,  1906;  autograph  letter  inserted  15.50 

Pyser  sale,  1906  11.00 

The  Same:  first  edition,  second  issue 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  (3  pp.)  inserted        10.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  1.25 

The  Sajme,  1859 :  large  paper  ^ 

Bangs,  Jan.  1897;  presentation  copy  10.25 

French  sale,  1901,  large  paper;  presentation  copy  51.00 
Whipple  sale,  1903,  large  paper;  presentation  copy  with 

autograph  letter  inserted  16.00 

Knapp  sale,  1905;  autograph  letter  inserted  16.75 

'  A  copy  on  ordinary  paper  was  sold  at  Anderson's  in  Jan.,  1905,  for 
$6.50. 


[295] 

Alger  sale,  1905;  autograph  letter  inserted  (imperfect)  $9.00 

Merwin-Clayton,  May  1906  3.75 

Street  sale,  1906  3.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  40.00 

The  Same,  1860 

Pennypacker  sale,  1906;  presentation  copy  12.00 

The  Same,  1893:  holiday  edition,  2  vols.,  illustrated 
by  H.  Pyle 


Libbie,  Oct.  1895 

6.00 

Bangs,  April  1900 

8.00 

Anderson,  April  1900 

6.00 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table 

:    first 

edition,  1860 

Foote  sale,  1894,  mor. 

9.50 

Bangs,  May  1895 

5.00 

Libbie,  March  1897 

3.50 

Bangs,  April  1897 

6.00 

Bangs,  April  1899,  levant 

7.50 

Roos  sale,  1900 

3.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901;   autograph  of  3  stanzas  of  * 

'Under 

the  Violets,"  dated  1860 

33.00 

French  sale,  1901 

25.50 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901 

8.00 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902 

9.50 

Appleton  sale,  1902 

6.50 

Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant 

20.00 

Peirce  sale,  1903 

7.50 

Whipple  sale,  1903 

8.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy,  with  au 

tograph 

letter  inserted 

65.00 

Libbie,  June  1904 

3.50 

Anderson,  Oct.  1904 

4.50 

Knapp  sale,  1905 

5.00 

Libbie,  March  1905 

3.25 

Lemoyne  sale,  1905 

4.75 

Pyser  sale,  1906 

6.50 

Peacock  sale,  1906 

3.00 

Denny  sale,  1906,  large  paper 

4.50 

[  296-] 


Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in  Medical  Sci- 
ence 


Bangs,  May  1895 

$5.50 

Libbie,  April  1897 

2.75 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

3.50 

Hammond  sale,  1902;    presentation  copy  to    W.  A. 

Hammond 

5.50 

Whipple  sale,  1903; 

autograph  letter  inserted 

3.25 

Merwin-Clayton,  April  1905;  autograph 

letter  inserted 

3.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906 

.50 

Currents  and  Counter-Currents  in 

Medical  Sci- 

ENCE,  with  Other  Addresses  and 

ESSATS 

Bangs,  April  1897 

2.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

1.00 

Emie  Venner:  first  edition,  2  vols. 

Foote  sale,  1894;  au1 

tograph  letter  inserted 

7.50 

Bangs,  Nov.  1894 

4.00 

Libbie,  April  1895 

5.00 

Libbie,  March  1896 

3.75 

Bangs,  April  1896 

3.50 

Bangs,  April  1896 

4.00 

Bangs,  April  1897 

5.25 

Libbie,  April  1897 

3.75 

Libbie,  May  1897 

4.00 

Camith  sale,  1898 

3.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898 

5.00 

Roos  sale,  1900 

3.25 

Mackay  sale,  1900 

4.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

4.25 

Libbie,  March  1901 

5.00 

Bangs,  April  1901 

4.50 

Bangs,  Dec.  1901 

3.00 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902 

6.00 

Bangs,  Feb.  1902 

4.20 

Bangs,  Oct.  1902 

4.50 

Appleton  sale,  1903 

7.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903; 

presentation  copy 

,  with  autograph 

letter  inserted 

40.00 

Peirce  sale,  1903 

4.50 

Cressy  sale,  1903 

3.50 

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Libbie,  June  1904  $4.00 

Libbie,  March  1905  3.50 

Merwin-Clayton,  Feb.  1906  4.70 

Pyser  sale,  1906;  presentation  copy  10.00 

Medical  Directions,  etc.,  1862 

Peirce  sale,  1903  5.50 

Border  Lines  of  Knowi.edge  in  some  Provinces 
OF  Medical  Science 
Bangs,  April  1897  1.63 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  6.00 

French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;   presentation  copy     14.00 

Oration  before  the  City  Authorities  of  Boston,  July  4, 
1863 :  regular  edition 
Bangs,  April  1897,  i  calf  2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.63 

Lincoln  sale,  1901  7.00 

French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904;   preface  signed  by 
author  and  2  autograph  letters  inserted  75.00 

The  Same.    Philadelphia 

Hutchinson  sale,  1906  '  5.50 

The  Same:  quarto  edition,  12  printed 

Livermore  sale,  1894  19.00 

Lincoln  sale,  1901 ;  presentation  copy  to  F.  W.  Lincoln, 

Jr.,  with  autographic  inscription  ^  40.00 

Knapp  sale,  1905  25.00 

The  Guardian  Angel:  first  edition 

Bangs,  April  1897  2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  inserted  12.00 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  8.75 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902  8.25 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  42.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  .50 

Teaching  from  the  Chair  and  at  the  Bedside 

Libbie,  AprU  1897  3.75 

^  At  this  same  sale  a  copy  of  the  4to  edition  without  Dr.  Holmes's 
introductory  note  (see  p.  180,  swpra)  brought  only  $7.00. 


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History  of  the  American  Stereoscope 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

$14.00 

Mechanism  in  Thought  and  Morals 

Foote  sale,  1894;  autograph  letter  inserted 

9.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy 

40.00 

Anderson,  March  1904;  autograph  letter  inserted 

3.25 

Anderson,  April  1904;  presentation  copy 

6.25 

Alger  sale,  1905;  presentation  copy 

21.00 

The  Claims  of  Dentistry 

Libbie,  April  1897 

2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

1.25 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table:  first  edition^ 

Foote  sale,  1894,  mor. 

8.75 

Libbie,  April  1895 

9.50 

Bangs,  May  1895 

6.00 

Bangs,  March  1896 

3.00 

Bangs,  Jan.  1897;  presentation  copy 

8.00 

Bangs,  April  1897 

9.00 

Libbie,  April  1897 

3.25 

Blanchard  sale,  1898 

4.75 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898;  autograph  letter  inserted 

4.25 

Bangs,  April  1899,  levant 

8.50 

Libbie,  May  1899 

3.00 

Libbie,  Feb.  1900 

4.12 

Roos  sale,  1900 

3.13 

Bangs,  April  1900 

3.60 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  two  autograph  letters  inserted 

22.00 

French  sale,  1901;  the  C.  B.  Foote  copy  (see  first  entry 

above) 

24.00 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901 

6.00 

Bangs,  Jan.  1902 

9.00 

May  sale,  1903 

4.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy 

35.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903 

8.50 

Anderson,  April  1903 

5.25 

Somerby  sale,  1903 

3.50 

Anderson,  Jan.  1904 

5.00 

Anderson,  Oct.  1904 

3.75 

*  A  "  presentation  copy"  of  an  edition  of  1877  was  sold  at  Anderson's 
in  Jan.,  1905,  for  $10.00. 


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Alger  sale,  1905  $6.37 

Anderson,  Jan.  1906  4.25 

Denny  sale,  1906  4.00 

Brandon  sale,  1906  3.25 

Pyser  sale,  1906  3.50 

Breakfast-Table  Series:   Autocrat,  1858,  Professor, 
1860,  Poet,  1872  (all  first  editions) 

Anderson,  April  1905;  autograph  letter  inserted  57.00 

John  Lothrop  Motley:  first  edition 

Bangs,  April  1897  2.75 

Bangs,  April  1897,  large  paper  10.00 

Deane  sale,  1898;  presentation  copy  3.50 
Daly  sale,  1900;  57  portraits  and  an  autograph  letter 

inserted  43.00 
Arnold  sale,  1901,  large  paper;  autograph  letter  to  R.  C. 

Winthrop  inserted  10.50 

Bangs,  Jan.  1901  5.25 

Henkels,  Nov.  1902  3.00 
French  and  Chubbuck  sale ,  1 904 ;  autograph  letter  inserted   7.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906,  large  paper  3.00 

Pages  from  an  Old  Volume  of  Life  :  first  edition 

Pyser  sale,  1906;  the  Foote  copy  1.50 

Ralph  Waldo  Emerson 

Carruth  sale,  1898;  autograph  letter  inserted  5.50 

McKee  sale,  1900;  sheets  2.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901  1.25 

Bangs,  Jan.  1901;  sheets  3.50 

Whipple  sale,  1903  35.00 
Denny  sale,  1906;  presentation  copy  to  J.  S.  Dwight     9.00 

Anderson,  Jan.  1906;  autograph  letter  inserted  12.50 

Merwin-Clayton,  1906;  the  Denny  copy  13.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906;   "original  pink  boards"  12.50 

A  Mortal  Antipathy:  first  edition 

Bangs,  April  1897  2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  inserted  5.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;   presentation  copy  45.00 

Pyser  sale,  1906  1.00 

Our  Hundred  t)AYs  in  Europe  :  first  edition 

Foote  sale,  1894,  J  mor.;  autograph  letter  inserted  5.50 


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Bangs,  April  1897  $2.00 
Libbie,  April  1897,  levant ;  54  portraits  and  plates  inserted    7.25 
Libbie,  April  1897,  large  paper;  autograph  letter  in- 
serted 9.00 
Bangs,  April  1900;  presentation  copy,  with  inscription 

and  autograph  note  on  p.  Ill  15.50 
Arnold  sale,  1901 ;  autograph  letter  inserted  8.25 
Appleton  sale,  1903,  levant;  54  extra  plates  inserted        17.50 
French  and  Chubbuck  sale,  1904,  mor.;  43  plates  in- 
serted 8.00 
Over  the  Teacups:  first  edition 

Foote  sale,  1894;  autograph  letter  inserted  12.00 

Bangs,  April  1897  3.00 

Arnold  sale,  1901;  autograph  letter  inserted  4.75 

Libbie,  Dec.  1901  3.00 

Whipple  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  42.50 

Bartlett  sale,  1903;  presentation  copy  16.00 

Phillips  sale,  1906;  presentation  copy  10.00 

Works:   Riverside  Edition 

Bangs,  Jan.  1895,  13  vols.,  large  paper  55.25 

Bangs,  Jan.  1896,  14  vols.,  large  paper  42.00 

Bangs,  Dec.  1896,  16  vols.,  large  paper  48.00 

Bangs,  Feb.  1897,  16  vols.,  large  paper  37.60 

Henkels,  March  1897,  14  vols.,  large  paper  36.40 

Bangs,  Nov.  1897,  13  vols.  14.95 

Henkels,  March  1898,  13  vols.,  J  levant  48.75 

Bangs,  April  1899,  16  vols.,  large  paper  64.00 

Daly  sale,  1900,  16  vols.,  large  paper  80.00 

Bangs,  Nov.  1901,  16  vols.,  large  paper  68.00 
Bangs,  Feb.  1902;  Autocrat,  Professor  and  Poet,  3  vols., 

with  105  extra  portraits  and  views  inserted  19.50 

Wales  sale,  1903,  14  vols.,  large  paper  66.50 

Peirce  sale,  1903,  16  vols.,  84.00 

Anderson,  May  1904,  14  vols.,  large  paper  52.50 

Field  sale,  1905,  13  vols.,  large  paper  56.00 

Works:  Staz^dard  Library  Edition 

Henkels,  Sept.  1896  14.30 

Libbie,  Dec.  1896,  J  levant  22.75 

Bangs,  June  1897,  ^  mor.  39.00 

Libbie,  Nov.  1898,  ^  levant  39.00 


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Libbie,  Jan.  1899,  J  levant 

$32.50 

Bangs,  Jan.  1899,  i  mor. 

22.50 

Libbie,  April  1900 

19.50 

Bangs,  May  1900,  J  mor. 

26.00 

Bangs,  April  1901,  J  mor. 

26.00 

Works:  Artists'  Edition 

Bangs,  May  1895,  13  vols. 

24.37 

Bangs,  Nov.  1895,  13  vols. 

58.50 

Libbie,  Feb.  1897,  13  vols. 

22.75 

Levy  sale,  1903,  3  vols.,  i  levant 

56.25 

Anderson,  May  1903,  13  vols. 

24.00 

Goodwin  sale,  1903,  15  vols.,  levant;    autograph 

letter  inserted 

240.00 

Ruppert  sale,  1904,  15  vols,  in  30,  i  levant 

55.50 

Soundings  from  thh;  Atlantic 

Foote  sale,  1894;  autograph  letter  inserted 

7.00 

Bangs,  April  1897 

2.25 

Arnold  sale,  1901 

1.12 

French  sale,  1901 

3.00 

Bangs,  Oct.  1901;  autograph  letter  inserted 

'       8.00 

Appleton  sale,  1903 

3.00 

Anderson,  April  1905 

4.75 

Humorous  Poems,  1865 

Foote  sale,  1894 

3.50 

Libbie,  April  1897 

3.50 

Peirce  sale,  1903 

4.50 

Brandon  sale,  1906 

3.25 

Pyser  sale,  1906;  "original  paper  covers" 

9.00 

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MANUSCRIPTS 

Dr.  Holmes  said  more  than  once  that  his  autographs  were 
likely  to  be  so  conmion  that  they  would  have  Httle  value.  The 
following  list  seems  to  prove  that  he  was  mistaken;  but  it  should 
be  said  that,  for  lack  of  space,  the  compiler  has  been  compelled 
to  omit  the  record  of  sales  of  many  letters  at  prices  ranging  from 
$1.00  to  $3.00.  They  were,  in  most  cases,  letters  which  derived 
no  added  value  from  their  subjects  or  from  the  eminence  of  the 
persons  to  whom  they  were  addressed.  Such  notes  as  the  com- 
piler has  been  able  to  collect  concerning  the  original  mss.  of  any 
of  Dr.  Holmes's  works  will  be  found  in  connection  with  such 
works  respectively. 

Letter  of  sympathy  to  James  R.  Osgood,  1885. 

Bangs,' March  1896  $6.25 

Letter  of  3  pages,  Dec.  29,  1846.    "  Very  interesting 
personal  and  literary  letter." 

Bangs,  March  1896  37.00 

Autograph  ms.  of  lecture  on  the  Hahnemann  Medi- 
cinal System,  2  pages. 
Bangs,  April  1899  3.25 

Letter  of  2  pages,  dated  Jan.  14,  1886,  with  2  stanzas 
of  "The  Pilgrim's  Vision." 

Stryker  sale,  1901  12.50 

Letter  unsigned,  2  pages,  dated  July  3, 1869,  to  R.  C. 
Waterston. 
Arnold  sale,  1901  12.00 

Letter,  3  pages,  dated  July  5,  1866,  to  R.  C.  Winthrop. 

Arnold  sale,  1901  6.00 

Letter  to  Houghton,  Osgood  &  Co.,  Oct.  18,  1879,      . 
about  a  sketch  of  his  life  being  prepared  by  Ray 
Palmer. 
Arnold  sale,  1901  32.50 

Letter,  4  pages,  dated  Dec.  29,  1855,  referring  to  his 
address  before  the  New  England  Society,  Dec.  23, 
and  discussing  his  views  on  slavery. 
French  sale,  1901  12.00 

Resold  at  Bangs's  in  June  1902,  for  $13.00. 


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Autograph  stanza,  beginning  "  Ix)rd,  let  War's  tem- 
pests cease,"  7  lines,  signed,  dated  April  21,  1882. 
Bangs,  May  1902  $13.50 

Autograph  stanza  of  "  Union  and  Liberty,"  10  lines 
signed  and  dated. 
Bangs,  May  1902  14.00 

Letter  of  2  pages,  dated  March  15, 1860. 

Peirce  sale,  1903  10.00 

Letter  of  condolence  to  John  S.  Dwight  on  the  death 
of  Mrs.  Dwight,  6  pages,  dated  Nov.  11,  1860. 
Alexander  sale,  1902  17.00 

Letter  to  John  G.  Whittier,  expressing  pleasure  at 
having  received  an  appreciative  letter  from  him,  4 
pages,  dated  March  5,  1870. 
Whittier  sale,  1903  230.00 

Letter  to  John  G.  Whittier,  4  pages,  dated  Oct.  18, 
1881,  endorsed  "  O.  W.  Holmes  "  in  Whittier 's  hand. 
Whittier  sale,  1903  60.00 

Letter  to  Edwin  P.  Whipple,  3  pages,  dated  Nov.  16, 
1880. 
Whipple  sale,  1903  56.00 

Autograph  stanza,  4  lines,  from  the  "Army  Hymn," 
signed,  dated  Nov.  28, 1864.    (The  hymn  was  writ- 
ten in  1861.) 
Gilsey  sale,  1903  10.50 

Letter  to  George  Bancroft,  asking  him  to  read  "  The 
Chambered   Nautilus,"   3    pages,   dated  Boston, 
Dec.  1864. 
Williamson  sale,  1904  19.50 

Tetter  to  Mrs.  Lander,  the  actress,  after  seeing  a  per- 
formance of  "The  Scarlet  Letter." 
Beck  sale,  1905  22.00 

Resold  by  Merwin-Clayton  Co.  in  Oct.  1906,  for  $15.00. 
Autograph  ms.  of  the  last  stanza  of  "The  Cham- 
bered Nautilus,"  signed  with  full  name,  and  dated 
July  19,  1890,  together  with  letter  of  same  date, 
inclosing  it. 
Wilson  sale,  1905  23.00 


,1 

i 


APPENDIX 

The  following  pages  contain  such  notes  and  memoranda  as 
came  to  the  compiler's  knowledge  only  when  it  was  too  late  to 
place  them  where  they  belong.  In  one  or  two  instances,  place 
has  been  made  for  an  important  item  in  the  body  of  the  book, 
by  relegating  one  of  less  importance  to  the  Appendix. 

Page  3 

The  "Address  for  the  Opening  of  the  Fifth  Avenue  Theatre  ** 
was  spoken  by  Miss  Fanny  Morant,  down  to  the  passage 
beginning 

"Behold  the  offspring  of  the  Thespian  Cart;** 
the  remainder  by  Mr.  Frank  Hardenberg.   It  has  been  printed 
twice  in  the  publications  of  the  Dunlap  Society,  viz:  — 

No.  III.  Opening  Addresses,  Laurence  Hutton,  editor,  1887, 
pp.  128-133. 

No.  Xn.  Occasional  Addresses,  1773-1890,  L.  Hutton  and 
W.  Carey,  editors,  1890,  pp.  102-107. 

Page  12 

Boston  Common 

In  the  "Boston  Common'*  leaflet,  the  poem  is  printed  on 
the  inside  pages,  in  facsimile  of  Dr.  Holmes's  original  ms., 
signed  by  him,  and  dated  Nov.  14,  1859.  There  is  a  notice  of 
copyright  by  F.  H.  Underwood,  1859. 

Page  16 
Choose  You  this  Day  whom  Ye  will  Serve 

Written  in  1862,  at  the  request  of  Rev.  Thomas  Starr  King, 
of  California,  "to  finish  off  the  lecture  he  had  devoted  to  me.** 

Holmes  to  Motley,  Dec,  1862,  quoted  in  Morse's  Life  and 
Letters,  vol.  ii,  pp.  170-171. 

Page  33. 

"  *  How  Came  I  here? '    The  Portrait  thus  might  speak  " 
The  following  lines  were  printed  in  the  Boston  Medical  and 


[  306  } 

Surgical  Journal,  May  5,  1892,  vol.  126,  pp.  451-452.  They 
were  read  by  Dr.  Holmes  in  reply  to  the  poem  with  which  Dr. 
S.  Weir  Mitchell  accompanied  the  presentation  of  Mrs.  Whit- 
man's portrait  of  Holmes  to  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Physi- 
cians. 

"How  came  I  here?"   The  portrait  thus  might  speak, 
The  crimson  manthng  in  its  canvas  cheek; 

"Here  in  this  concourse  of  the  grave  and  wise 
Who  look  upon  me  with  inquiring  eyes. 
As  on  some  homeless  wanderer,  caught  astray? 
An  error  loci,  Boerhaave  would  say. 
Is  this  great  hive  of  industry  my  home  ? 
Where  is  the  Conmaon  ?    Where  my  gilded  dome  ? 
Where  the  Old  South  ?    The  frog  pond  ?    Most  of  all. 
My  sacred  temple,  Freedom's  Faneuil  Hall  ? " 

No  answer  comes;   no  trick  of  human  art 
Can  force  those  fixed,  unmoving  lips  apart. 
He  whom  the  picture  shadows  must  explain 
This  lawless  inroad  on  a  strange  domain. 
Were  it  my  votive  offering,  meant  to  show 
My  grateful  sense  of  all  the  debts  I  owe 
To  your  fair  city,  its  imlooked-for  face 
Might  find  no  caviller  to  dispute  its  place. 
Yet  though  the  friendly  offering  is  not  mine 
It  bears  my  benediction  to  the  shrine 
WTiere,  if  it  meets  a  welcome,  longer  yet 
Will  stretch  the  column  which  displays  my  debt. 

Friends  of  my  earlier  manhood,  ever  dear. 
Whose  fives,  whose  labors  aU  were  centred  here, 
How  bright  each  figure  stands  before  me  now 
With  eyes  undimmed  and  fair  un wrinkled  brow. 
As  when,  with  life  before  us  yet  untried. 
We  walked  the  "Latin  Quarter"  side  by  side. 
Through  halls  of  death,  through  palaces  of  pain 
That  cast  their  shadows  on  the  turbid  Seine. 

When  o'er  our  coffee,  at  the  old  "Procope," 
Smiling,  we  cast  each  other's  horoscope. 
Daring  the  future's  dubious  path  to  scan, 
Gerhard,  your  Gerhard  was  the  coming  man. 


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Strong-brained,  strong-willed,  inquiring,  patient,  wise, 

He  looked  on  truth  through  achromatic  eyes: 

Sure  to  succeed,  for  Nature,  like  a  maid. 

Loves  best  the  lovers  who  are  not  afraid. 

Lends  them  her  hand  to  lead  them  where  they  please, 

And  trusts  them  boldly  with  her  master-keys. 

Behold,  unfading  on  the  rolls  of  fame 

Typhus  and  Typhoid  stamped  with  Gerhard's  name. 

Look  on  the  stately  form  at  Gerhard's  side. 

He,  too,  shall  live  to  be  his  city's  pride. 

Tall,  manly,  quiet,  grave,  but  not  austere, 

Not  slow  of  wit,  a  little  dull  of  ear. 

Him. we  predestined  to  the  place  he  won,  — 

NorriSj  the  Quaker  City's  noble  son. 

Armed  with  the  skill  that  science  renders  sure, 

His  look,  his  touch,  were  half  his  patient's  cure; 

What  need  his  merits  I  should  further  tell  ? 

His  record  stands;  your  pages  know  it  well. 

Still  wandering,  lonely,  mid  the  funeral  urns, 

To  one  loved  name  my  saddening  thought  returns, 

Less  to  the  many  known,  but  to  the  few, 

A  precious  memory,  —  Stewardson,  to  you. 

Through  many  a  league  we  two  together  fared. 

The  traveller's  comforts  and  discomforts  shared. 

When  hills  and  valleys  parted  distant  towns. 

Long  ere  the  railway  smoothed  their  ups  and  downs. 

In  all  the  trials  wearing  days  could  bring 

No  fretful  utterance  ever  left  its  sting: 

Pity  it  was  that,  chased  by  pallid  fears. 

He  walked  in  shadow  through  his  morning  years. 

Talked  of  his  early  doom,  and  then,  and  then 

Lived  on,  and  on,  past  three  score  years  and  ten. 

Too  shy,  perhaps  too  timid,  for  success. 

He  fought  life's  battle  bravely  not  the  less. 

Others  left  prouder  memories,  none  more  dear; 

For  those  a  sigh,  for  Stewardson  a  tear! 

Well,  years  rolled  on,  we  went  our  several  ways 
Not  unrewarded  with  our  meed  of  praise; 
Time  took  the  weight  and  measure  of  our  brains 


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Set  us  our  tasks  and  paid  us  for  our  pains. 

At  length  (our  side-locks  fast  were  turning  gray) 

He  brought  our  a^i;  that  all-important  day 

When  here  our  ^sculapian  Congress  met 

(Its  second  gathering,  you  will  not  forget). 

I  with  the  crowd  your  far-famed  city  sought. 

Pleased  to  behold  the  schools  where  Rush  had  taught, 

Where  Wister  labored  and  where  Homer  led 

His  thirsting  flock  to  Surgery's  fountain-head. 

What  kindly  welcome  with  the  rest  I  shared; 
A  little  pleased  —  perhaps  a  little  scared. 
When  Chapman  hugged  me  in  his  huge  embrace 
With  praise  that  lit  a  bonfire  in  my  face  — 
When  Francis y  guest  at  MitchelVs  generous  board. 
My  humble  name  across  the  table  roared. 
Coupled  with  one  which  figures  on  the  roll 
Of  England's  poets  —  bless  his  worthy  soul! 
Garth  —  good  Sir  Samuel,  whose  poetic  spark 
Scarce  seen  by  day,  still  glimmers  in  the  dark. 
These  flitting  phantoms  of  the  past  survive, 
While  grateful  Memory  keeps  her  fires  alive. 
Friends  of  the  days  that  fear  and  anguish  knew 
My  heart  records  a  deeper  debt  to  you. 

To  this  kind  refuge  hallowed  evermore. 
Her  shattered  sufferers  fond  affection  bore. 
Full  many  a  father  tracked  his  bleeding  son 
Fresh  from  the  murderous  conflict,  lost  or  won. 
Strayed  through  some  quiet  ward,  and  looking  round. 
In  pity's  sheltering  arms  the  lost  was  found. 

Enough!  Enough!  these  eyes  will  overflow 
In  sweet  remembrance  of  the  debt  I  owe  — 
A  debt  't  would  bankrupt  gratitude  to  pay  — 
But  Heaven  perhaps  will  hear  me  when  I  pray: 
Peace  to  your  borders!    Long  may  Science  reign 
Supreme,  unchallenged  o'er  her  old  domain! 
While  sons  as  worthy  as  their  sires  of  old 
Her  borrowed  sceptre  still  unbroken  hold. 
Till  a  new  Rush  arise  who  dares  to  think  — 
An  unborn  Leidy  finds  the  missing  link. 


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Page  43 
Lines  written  at  Sea 
American  Monthly  Magazine,  Feb.,  1836,  vol.  7,  pp.  183- 

184. 
Printed    in   Poems,   1836,    under  the  title    "An   Evening 
Thought." 

Page  58 

Poem  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Halleck  Monument 

The  pamphlet  of  1869  is  rare.  It  was  used  as  copy  for  a  por- 
tion of  a  later  pamphlet,  printed  in  1877,  at  the  time  of  the  dedi- 
cation of  a  memorial  to  Halleck  in  Central  Park,  N.  Y. 

Page  64 
*A  Rhymed  Riddle 
Fair  Words  (published  in  aid  of  the  St.  Luke's  Home  for 
Convalescents,  Florence   Street,  Boston,  at  Horticultural 
Hall,  Boston,  Feb.  14, 1876),  p.  12  (4to,  double  column). 

"I'm  going  to  blank"  with  failing  breath. 

The  fallen  gladiator  said; 
Unconquered,  he  "consents  to  death;'* 

One  gasp  —  the  hero  soul  has  fled. 
"I'm  going  to  blank"  the  school-boy  cried; 

Two  sugared  sweets  his  hands  display,  — 
Like  snow-flakes  in  the  ocean-tide 

They  vanish,  melted  both  away. 
Tell  with  one  verb,  or  I  '11  tell  you. 

What  each  was  just  about  to  do. 

On  the  copy  in  the  Boston  Athenajum  is  pasted  a  tiny  slip 
from  the  Daily  Advertiser,  bearing  these  lines: — 

"Succumb,"  the  gladiator  groans. 

And  breathes  away  his  Hfe  with  moans; 

"Suck  'em,"  the  schoolboy  cries  in  glee  — 

You  need  n't.  Doctor  Holmes,  tell  me.  —  Sucker. 

Page  68 
*  Sceptres  and  thrones  the  morning  realms  have  tried 
The  Washington  Centenary,  celebrated  in  New  York,  April 
29,  30-May  1,  1889.   (Library  of  Tribune  Extras,  vol.  i^ 
no.  5,  May,  1889.) 


[310] 

In  the  account  of  the  banquet,  the  thirteenth  toast  —  The 
President  of  the  United  States  —  to  which  President  Harrison 
responded,  has  these  lines  printed  below,  motto-wise.  They 
were  presumably  written  for  the  occasion,  but  have  not  been 
reprinted. 

Sceptres  and  thrones  the  morning  realms  have  tried; 
Earth  for  the  people  kept  her  sunset  side. 
Arts,  manners,  creeds  the  teeming  Orient  gave; 
Freedom,  the  gift  that  freights  the  refluent  wave, 
Pays  with  one  priceless  peari  the  guerdon  due. 
And  leaves  the  Old  Worid  debtor  to  the  New. 

Long  as  the  watch-towers  of  our  crownless  Queen 
Front  the  broad  oceans  that  she  sits  between. 
May  her  proud  sons  their  plighted  faith  maintain. 
And  guard  unbroken  Union's  lengthening  chain,  — 
Union,  our  peaceful  sovereign,  she  alone 
Can  make  or  keep  the  western  worid  our  own! 

Page  71 

*Song  of  Welcome 

In  the  pamphlet  described,  Dr.  Holmes's  name  is  not  men- 
tioned as  the  author  of  the  poem.  His  authorship  was  first  pub- 
licly announced  in  the  Annual  Report  of  the  Boston  School 
Committee  for  1864,  p.  202,  where  the  poem  is  reprinted. 

Page  116 
*  Tribute  to  the  Memory  of  Bayard  Taylor.    Read  at  a 
memorial  meeting  in  Boston,  Jan.  10,  1879. 

Life,  Travels  and  Literary  Remains  of  Bayard  Taylor,  by 

R.  H.  Conwell,  1879,  pp.  325-326.^ 
The  ms.  of  this  address  is  owned  by  Mr.  S.  H.  Wakeman. 

Page  130 

The  Poem  for  the  Dedication  of  Pittsfield  Cemetery  was 
printed  with  the  Address  delivered  by  Rev.  Henry  Neill  on  the 

^  In  this  volume  the  date  of  the  meeting  is  not  given,  and  the  address 
is  preceded  by:  **  Dr.  Hohnes's  address  was  nearly  as  follows." 


[311] 

same  occasion.  The  publication  containing  them  is  found  in  the 
following  forms. 

1.  An  Address  by  Rev.  Henry  Neill,  and  A  Poem  by  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes:  Delivered  at  the  Dedication  of  the  Pittsfield 
(Rural)  Cemetery,  September  9th,  1850,  with  other  matter, 
and  a  Map  of  the  Grounds.  By  the  Committee  of  Publication. 
Pittsfield,  Mass. :  Axtel,  Bull  and  Marsh.  .  .  .  Printers.    1850. 

In  this  form  the  historical  summary  and  proceedings  fill  pp. 
1-22,  followed  by  "Memorials  for  the  Dead"  (the  Address  and 
Poem),  on  pp.  23-60;  then  come  4  pages  of  miscellaneous  verse 
and  a  plan  of  the  cemetery.    A  lithographed  plan  precedes  title. 

2.  The  title-page  is  the  same  as  in  number  one,  except  that 
the  words  "with  other  matter,  and  a  Map  of  the  Grounds'* 
are  omitted.  The  contents  consist  of  the  Address  and  Poem 
only,  on  pp.  1-35,  the  first  3  pages  being  unnumbered. 

Mr.  P.  K.  Foley,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  the  description 
of  number  two,  advises  me  that  he  has  a  copy  (a  "  presentation 
copy*'  from  Mr.  Neill),  handsomely  bound,  and  containing  only 
the  Address  and  Poem,  with  the  pagination  of  number  one, 
the  preliminary  matter  and  the  pages  beyond  60  having  been 
removed.  This  would,  as  Mr.  Foley  suggests,  seem  to  prove 
that  the  longer  pamphlet  was  issued  before  the  other,  as  Mr. 
Neill  would  naturally  have  chosen  for  presentation  an  unmuti- 
lated  copy  if  there  had  been  such  an  one  in  existence. 

Page  180 

Lectuee  —  1863.    Private  Copy.     Boston,  1863. 

4to,  blank  paper  covers;   6  copies  printed. 

There  is  no  indication  of  the  occasion  on  which,  or  of  the 
place  where,  this  lecture  was  delivered.  It  is  historical  in  its 
nature,  and  opens  thus:  — 

"A  great  change  has  taken  place  within  the  last  two  or  three 
years,  in  the  relations  of  our  people  and  nation  to  the  dynasties 
of  the  old  world,  especially  to  the  predominant  power  of  Eng- 
land. The  change  is  the  last  of  four  stages."  These  stages  are 
—  First,  Religious  Independence;  Second,  Political  Independ- 
ence; Third,  Movement  towards  Industrial  Independence; 
Fourth,  Rapid  Growth  of  Intellectual  Independence. 

For  his  Imowledge  of  this  and  the  following  item  the  compiler 
is  indebted  to  Mrs.  J.  C.  Chamberlain  of  New  York.  The  copy 
in  the  collection  of  the  late  Mr.  Chamberlain  (bound  in  half- 


morocco,  original  wrappers  bound  in)  has  on  the  first  page,  in 
Dr.  Hohnes's  hand:  "One  of  six  Copies  printed."  It  brought 
$15.50  at  the  sale  of  the  library  of  George  Livermore,  Esq.,  in 
1894,  and  was  resold  by  the  purchaser,  Mr.  Chubbuck,  at  the 
French-Chubbuck  sale  in  1904,  for  $112.00. 

New  England's  Master-Key.     Boston,  1864. 
4to,  blank  paper  covers;  6  copies  printed. 

Again,  there  is  no  indication  of  the  place  of  delivery  of  the 
lecture ;  but  it  has  at  the  end  a  date,  Nov.  8,  1864.  The  theme  is 
the  advantage  of  specialization  in  making  a  success  of  life,  and 
"New  England's  Master-Key"  is  defined  as  the  specialization 
of  intellectual  labor.  After  citing  examples  of  persons  who 
devoted  their  lives  to  doing  one  thing  thoroughly,  —  Prescott, 
Motley,  Allibone,  Worcester,  Webster,  Audubon,  etc.,  —  Dr. 
Holmes  closes  thus:  "Nothing  has  been  done  in  New  England 
that  may  not  be  done  elsewhere.  Take  our  key,  then,  brothers 
and  sisters  of  Kansas,  of  Florida,  of  Arizona,  and  open  the  gates 
of  progress  for  yourselves.  .  .  .  But  this  mighty  nation  can 
never  forget  its  own  peculiar  task.  There  is  one  question  in 
religion;  there  is  one  great  question  in  government.  The  old 
world  has  failed  to  answer  either;  the  new  world  must  try  to 
answer  both!" 

The  late  Mr.  Chamberlain's  copy  (half  morocco,  original 
covers  bound  in)  bears  this  inscription  on  the  first  page:  "One  of 
six  copies  printed.  O.  W.  Holmes."  It  brought  $16.00  at  the 
Livermore  sale,  and  $110.00  at  the  French-Chubbuck  sale. 

Page  192 

A  Mortal  Antipathy 

In  the  opening  paper  of  The  New  Portfolio,  Dr.  Holmes  said, 
referring  to  the  founding  of  the  Atlantic:  "I  .  .  .  won- 
dered somewhat  when  Mr.  Lowell  urged  me  with  such  earnest- 
ness to  become  a  contributor,"  etc.  Whereupon  Lowell  wrote 
from  London:  "The  first  number  of  your  New  Portfolio  whets 
my  appetite.  Let  me  make  one  historical  correction.  When  I 
accepted  the  editorship  of  the  Atlantic,  I  made  it  a  condition 
precedent  that  you  were  the  first  contributor  to  be  engaged." 
As  a  consequence  of  this  "  historical  correction,"  when  The 
New  Portfolio  was  issued  in  book  form,  as  A  Mortal  Antipathy, 


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,  the  passage  quoted  was  so  changed  as  to  read:  "I  wondered 
somewhat  when  Mr.  Lowell  insisted  upon  my  becoming  a  con- 
tributor." See  Scudder's  James  Russell  Lowell,  vol.  i,  p.  413. 

Page  255 

Charles  D.  Meigs,  M.  D. 
The  passage  on  page  113  of  Dr.  Meigs's  book  reads  thus:  — 
**Or  shall  we  rather  disregard  the  jejune  and  fizenless  dream- 
ings  of  sophomore  writers,  who  thunder  forth  denunciations, 
and  would  mark,  if  they  might,  with  a  black  and  ineffaceable 
spot,  the  hard  won  reputation  of  every  physician,  who,  in  the 
Providence  of  God,  is  called  upon  to  contend  with  the  rage  of 
one  of  the  most  destructive  of  epidemics,  and  pay  an  ungrateful 
service,  indispensable  to  the  victims  it  is  allowed  to  attack,  and 
with  the  propagation  of  which  they  have  no  more  to  do  than 
with  the  propagation  of  cholera  from  Jessore  to  San  Francisco, 
and  from  Mauritius  to  St.  Petersburg." 

See  also  Copland's  Medical  Dictionary,  1845,  pp.  558-560; 
and  the  Fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Registrar  General  of  Births, 
Deaths,  and  Marriages  in  England,  1843,  pp.  187-189. 


In  the  Memoirs  of  "Malakoff,"  Extracts  from  the 
Correspondence  and  Papers  of  the  late  William  Edward 
Johnston,  edited  by  R.  M.  Johnston  (London,  Hutchin- 
son &  Co.,  1907),  there  is  printed  a  poem  called  "A 
Battle-Hymn  in  Honour  of  Sir  John  Heenan,"  which  was 
printed,  soon  after  the  famous  Heenan-Sayers  prize-fight 
in  1860,  in  the  New  York  Times,  over  the  initial  "W." 
This  poem  is  attributed  by  Mr.  Johnston  to  Dr.  Holmes ; 
but  the  compiler  is  informed  by  the  editor  of  the  Times 
that  it  was  written  by  Mr.  Charies  Henry  Webb,  author 
of  Vagrom  Verse,  etc. 


[314.] 

ADDITIONS   TO    THE    CHRONOLOGICAL   LIST 
OF   SINGLE   PUBLICATIONS 

The  Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table.  With 
Introduction  by  G.  A.  Sala.     London,  Wardy 
Lock  &  Tyler,  1865. 
8vo,  pp.  iv,  123. 
Sixpenny  Volume  Library. 

The  Same.    London,  S.  O.  Beetcm,  1868. 
8vo,  pp.  vii,  279. 

The  Same.   Author's  Unabridged  Edition.    Lon- 
don, George  Routledge  &  Sons.    [1868.] 
8vo,  pp.  iv,  123. 

World-Wide  Library. 

Other  editions  of  the  "Autocrat  "were  issued  by  Messrs. 
Routledge  in  1884,  and  1886  ("Camelot  Classics"). 

Yankee  Drouleries.  The  most  celebrated  works 
of  the  best  American  humorists.      Complete 
editions,    with    introduction    by    G.    A.    Sala. 
London,  1870. 
3  vols.,  8vo. 

The  "Autocrat"  is  included  in  vol.  iii  (called  "A  Third 
Supply")  and  the  "Professor"  in  vol.  ii.  The  contents  of 
the  volumes  range  from  sj>ecimens  of  Josh  Billings  to 
"The  Biglow  Papers."  Each  work  is  paged  separately. 
The  paper  and  press-work  are  very  bad. 

The  Autocrat,  etc.  Introduction  by  G.  A.  Sala. 
London,  George  RoiUledge   &  Sons,  1893. 
16mo,  pp.  315. 

The  Same.  Introduction  by  Andrew  Lang.  Lon- 
don, Ward,  Lock  &  Co,,  1896. 
8vo,  pp.  XX,  331. 
XlXth  Century  Classics,  Clement  K.  Shorter,  editor. 


[315] 

Among  their  numerous  reprints  of  Dr.  Holmes's  works, 
Messrs.  Routledge  seem  to  have  issued  in  1882,  and  again 
in  1888,  an  edition  of  The  Breakfast-Table  Series,  in  S 
"parts,"  with  introduction  by  G.  A.  Sala.  The  issue  of 
1888  is  included  in  Routledge's  Popular  Library  of 
Standard  Authors. 

The  Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table. 
Selections.  With  Introduction  by  H.  R. 
Haweis.  London,  George  Rmdledge  &  Sons^ 
1886. 

16mo,  pp.  158. 
Routledge*s  Worid  Library. 

The  Same.  London,  George  Routledge  &  Sons, 
1893. 

16mo,  pp.  315. 

Elsie  Venner.     London,  Roviledge^  Wame    & 
Routledge,  1861. 
8vo,  pp.  428. 

"Reprinted  from  the  Atlantic  Monthly,  where  it  Ji^ 
peared  as  'The  Professor's  Story.'" 

The  Same.    London,  Routledge,  Wame  &  Rout- 
ledge,  1861. 
8vo,  pp.  376. 
Parlour  Library,  vol.  247. 

The  Same.  Boston,  James  R.  Osgood  &  Co,, 
1869. 

8vo,  2  vols,  in  1. 

The  Same.  New  Edition.   London,  George  Rout- 
ledge  &  Sons,  1886. 
8vo,  pp.  148. 

The  Same.  Edinburgh,  W,  Paterson.  [1888.] 
8vo,  pp.  362. 


[  316  > 

The  Same.    London,  George  Roviledge   &  Sons, 
1890. 
8vo,  pp.  376. 

The  Guardian  Angel.    London,  Ward,  Lock  & 
Tyler,  1868. 
2  vols.,  8vo,  pp.  318. 
Library  of  Popular  Authors. 

The  Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table.    London, 
George  Routledge  &  Sons,  1872. 
8vo,  pp.  370. 
Reissued  in  1884. 

The    Same.       London,    John   Camden   HoUen, 
74   &  75  Piccadilly.    [1872.?] 
2  vols.,  32mo,  paper. 

The  Same.  London,  Walter  Scott.   [1889.] 
12mo. 

Camelot    Series.       Uniform    with    "Autocrat"    and 
"Professor." 

The  Same.    London,  George  Routledge   &  Sons, 
1893. 

16mo,  pp.  315.* 

A    Mortal    Antipathy.        London,    Sampson 
Low  &  Co.,  1885. 
8vo,  pp.  14. 
Contains  the  "Postscript"  only. 

^  The  brief  descriptions  of  the  editions  consigned  to  the  Appendix  are 
taken  from  the  Catalc^ue  of  Printed  Books  in  the  British  Museum,  and 
the  volumes  themselves  have  not  been  examined.  It  is  noted  here  as  a  curi- 
ous fact  that  Messrs.  Routledge  seem  to  have  published  in  1893  editions  of 
the  "Autocrat,"  "Professor,"  and  "Poet,"  each  containing  315  pages! 


INDEX 


INDEX 

After  Our  Hundred  Days,  59,  194. 

Agnes,  138  n. 

Amateur,  The,  204-205. 

American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences,  Proceedings  of,  97,  112, 

255. 
American  Medical  Association,  131. 
American  Monthly  Magazine,  24,  31,  41,  55,  64,  309. 
Appleton,  Thomas  G.,  92. 
Astrsea,  the  Balance  of  Illusions,  129,  234. 
Atlantic  Ahnanac,  The,  1868,  113;  1869,  116. 
Atlantic  Monthly,  founding  of,  236,  312. 
Autocrat,  The,  Gives  a  Breakfast  to  the  Public,  ms.  of,  97. 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  The,  I  (1831-1832),  79,  80,  96. 
Autocrat  of  the  Breakfast-Table,  The,  list  of  poems  in,  96-97; 

translation  of,  171. 
Avis,  ms.  of,  9,  97. 

Battle  Hymn,  A,  313, 

Beecher,  Henry  Ward,  106. 

Benefactors  of  the  Medical  School,  The,  164. 

Berkshire  Festival,  Lines  recited  at,  sale  of,  42. 

Bibliographies  of  Holmes,  245. 

Boatswain's  Whistle,  The,  40,  69. 

Border  Lines  of  Knowledge  in  some  Provinces  of  Medical  Science, 

178. 
Boston  Medical  Library  Association,  Holmes  Memorial  Meeting 

of,  93,  106;  Dedicatory  Address,  188. 
Brave  Old  South,  The,  sales  of,  12. 

British  Museum,  catalogue  of  prmted  books  in,  153,  314-316. 
Buckingham's  New  England  Magazine,  16,  17,  19,  32,  36,  39,  47, 

60,  70,  79,  80,  85,  99,  117. 
Bums,  Robert,  28,  231. 

Chambered  Nautilus,  The,  sales  of,  15 ;  ms.  of,  303. 

Childs,  George  W.,  59. 

Chimes  of  Freedom  and  Union,  206. 


[  320  ]-.^ 

Collegian»  The,  75,  202-204. 

Contagiousness  of  Puerperal  Fever,  The,  248  (Cullingworth),  251 

(Hodge),  253  (Kneeland),  255,  313  (Meigs). 
Cry  from  the  Study,  A,  226-227. 

Dentistry,  The  Claims  of,  183. 

Dickens,  Charles,  Song  for  the  Dinner  to,  sale  of,  72. 

Dorothy  Q.,  18,  104-105. 

Dunlap  Society's  Publications,  305. 

Elsie  Venner,  translation  of,  100,  178. 

Ether  Controversy,  The,  228,  229. 

Everett,  Edward,  Inauguration  of,  46;  Address  of,  89,  137. 

Fair  Play,  sale  of,  66. 

Fair  Words,  65,  309. 

Fifth  Avenue  Theatre,  Address  for  the  Opening  of  the,  305. 

Forbes,  John  Murray,  5,  80,  84. 

Gifts  of  Grenius,  10. 

Gleaner,  The,  205. 

Griswold,  Rufus  W.,  letter  to,  77. 

Hall,  Marshall,  M.  D.,  O.  W.  H.'s  edition  of  his  Principles  of  the 

Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine,  199. 
Halleck  Monmnent,  Poem  at  the  Dedication  of,  sale  of  58,  309. 
Harvard  Advocate,  33-34. 

Harvard  Club  of  New  York,  Annual  Dinner  of,  1878, 32,  203. 
Harvard  Commemoration,  1865,  28. 
Heenan,  John  C,.  313. 
Hohnes  Breakfast,  267. 
Homoeopathy  and  its  Kindred  Delusions,  256. 

Inevitable  Trial,  The,  179. 
Iron  Gate,  The,  sale  of,  39. 

Jackson,  Dr.  James,  46,  61,  78,  103,  104. 

Last  Charge,  The,  sale  of,  41. 
Last  Leaf,  The,  translation  of,  155. 
Laurel,  The,  206. 
Leland,  Charles  (xodfrey,  62. 


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Lessoffsky,  Admiral,  entertainment  of,  in  Boston,  71,  310. 
Liverpool  Philomathic  Society,  113. 
Longfellow,  H.  W.,  Journal  of,  7,  37,  56,  90. 
Lowell,  James  Russell,  1819-1891  (poem),  sale  of,  44. 
Lowell,  James  Russell,  49  n,  125. 
Lyrics  of  Loyalty,  206. 

"  Malakoff,"  Memoirs  of,  313. 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  Proceedings  of,  5,  9,  43,  54,  56, 

57,  61,  96,  97,  98,  99, 101,  102,  103,  104,  105, 107, 117,  231,  235, 

256,  272. 
Massachusetts  Medical  Society,  Poem  for  Centennial  Dinner  of, 

ms.  of,  58;  112,  114. 
Medical  Highways  and  By- Ways,  188. 
Medical  Profession  in  Massachusetts,  The,  182. 
Meigs,  Charles  D.,  M.D.,  313. 
Mercantile  Library  Reporter,  20-24. 
Morse,  John  T.,  Life  and  Letters  of  Hohnes,  11, 18,  32  n,  50,  63, 

90,  92,  125,  226,  236,  243,  255,  256,  266,  305. 
Mortal  Antipathy,  A,  312. 

Napoleon,  Prince,  89,  137. 
Naushon  Island,  40,  41,  84,  207-208. 

New  England  Society  in  New  York,  69,  108,  164,  229,  230-231, 
302. 

Old  Ironsides,  ms.  copies  of,  51. 

Old  Player,  The,  270. 

Our  Daily  Fare,  36,  60,  229-230. 

Our  Yankee  Girls,  sales  of,  55. 

Over  the  Teacups,  list  of  poems  in,  109. 

Pansie  (Nath.  Hawthorne),  101. 

Parkman,  Dr.  George,  biographical  sketch  of,  164. 

Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  27,  114,  232. 

Pictures  from  Occasional  Poems,  1850-1856,  20-24. 

Pierce,  John,  Diary  of,  viii,  43,  57,  61. 

Pittsfield  Cemetery,  Poem  for  the  Dedication  of,  sale  of,  59 ;  310. 

Poet  among  the  Hills,  The,  14,  19,  25,  58,  87, 113.  115,  136,  244. 

Poet  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  The,  list  of  poems  in,  110. 

Position  and  Prospects  of  the  Medical  Student,  The,  163. 


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Professor  at  the  Breakfast-Table,  The,  100;  list  of  poems  in.  111. 
Prospective  Visit,  A,  194. 
Punch,  poems  in,  275-278. 

Rabelais  Club,  186-187,  234,  270-271. 

Sargent,  John  O.,  103,  118,  203. 

Scudder,  H.  E.,  James  Russell  Lowell,  236,  313. 

Sewall,  Harold  Marsh,  113. 

Smith,  J.  E.  A.    See  The  Poet  among  the  Hills. 

Some  Stepping-Stones  and  Stumbling-Blocks  in  the  History  of 

Medicine,  ms.,  188. 
Sparks,  Jared,  Inauguration  of,  68. 
Stafford,  Ed.,  Medical  Directions  written  for  Governor  Winthrop 

by,  105,  199. 

Teaching  from  the  Chair  and  at  the  Bedside,  182. 

"This  evening  hour,"  etc.,  sales  of,  78. 

Token,  The,  1831,  43;  1833,  57,  62;  1837,  16;  1838,  53. 

Unsatisfied,  sale  of,  86. 

Vanity  Fair,  caricature  of  Dr.  Holmes  in,  252. 

Visit  to  the  Autocrat's  Landlady,  A,  sale  of  ms.  of,  52. 

Voyage  of  the  Good  Ship  Union,  ms.  of,  90. 

Washington  Centenary,  The,  309. 

Whitman's,  Mrs.,  portrait  of  Dr.  H.,  presentation  of,  to  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Physicians;  Dr.  H.'s  reply  to  Dr.  ^Mitchell's 
poem,  306-309. 

Whitney,  Rev.  George,  Diary  of,  viii. 

Youth,  sale  of,  94. 
Youth's  Keepsake,  17,  26. 


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